Published by Nabu Press, 2013
ISBN 10: 1287705065 ISBN 13: 9781287705062
Seller: Revaluation Books, Exeter, United Kingdom
Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 554 pages. 9.69x7.44x1.12 inches. This item is printed on demand.
Published by Legare Street Press, 2022
ISBN 10: 1018622535 ISBN 13: 9781018622538
Seller: moluna, Greven, Germany
Condition: New.
Published by Legare Street Press, 2022
ISBN 10: 101861804X ISBN 13: 9781018618043
Seller: moluna, Greven, Germany
Condition: New.
Published by London printed for Hawes Clarke & Collins S. Crowder T. Longman B. Law Robinson & Roberts and L. Taylor Holbourn, 1771
TITLE CONTINUED: as likewise in the greenhouse and stove, with the method of performing the different works, according to the best practice of the most eminent gardeners. Also an appendix, giving full and ample instructions for forcing grape vines, peach, nectarine trees, &c. in a new manner, never before published. Illustrated with thirteen plates, neatly engraved, of entire new plans for stoves, greenhouses, forcing frames, and designs for laying out kitchen, flower, and pleasure gardens, agreeable to the modern taste. To the whole is added, A Catalogue of Kitchen Garden Plants and Herbs, with the parts made Use of in COOKERY; Fruit Trees of the best sorts, bulbous-rooted Flowers, annual, biennial, and perennial herbaceous flower Plants, Herbs for Distilling and Medicine, Forest Trees, Flowering Shrubs and Evergreens, with great Variety of curious Greenhouse and Stove Plants, being a much more complete list than any hitherto published in Works of this Kind. Selected from the diary manuscripts of the late Mr. Hitt, formerly gardener to Lord Robert Manners, at Bloxholm, in Lincolnshire, and to Lord Robert Bertie, at Chislehurst in Kent. Revised, corrected, and very much improved, with many new additions, by James Meader, late gardener to the Earl of Chesterfield. FIRST EDITION 1771, 2 LEAVES MISSING FROM PRELIMS, pages 3-6, now replaced with facsimiles. 8vo, approximately 175 x 100 mm, 7 x 4 inches, 13 engraved illustrations, 1 folding, pages: 8, 1-530 plus 1 advert leaf, bound in quarter modern calf, green gilt lettered label, gilt rules and gilt name and date to spine, marbled boards, new black endpapers. First free endpaper soiled with old ink names and text, page 530 and last blank with old ink name and date, 1776, pale damp stain affecting top and bottom margins, just running into text of about 60 pages, 2 leaves facing each other have closed tear at lower part neatly repaired, no loss to text, small ink splash to 1 index page, all text legible, small ink spots affect some pages at end, a few other minor spots or stains, otherwise a good copy. See: Blanche Henrey, British Botanical and Horticultural Literature, Volume 3, page 60, No. 846; ESTC T127674, 5 copies listed in UK libraries and 5 in USA , 7 copies listed in Library Hub Discover. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.
Published by London: Printed for Hawes Clarke & Collins S. Crowder T. Longman B. Law Robinson & Roberts and L. Taylor, near Chancery Lane, Holbourn., 1771
Seller: Louis88Books (Members of the PBFA), Andover, United Kingdom
Association Member: PBFA
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. London: Printed for Hawes Clarke & Collins S. Crowder T. Longman B. Law Robinson & Roberts and L. Taylor, near Chancery Lane, Holbourn, 1771, FIRST Edition. Contemporary full leather binding, worn and cracking to the spine joints, faded gilt titles to a red label, loss to the top and tail of the spine, marked and worn, complete with 13 plates. A scarce work. 8, 530pp. Provenance: no signatures or bookplates. Approximately 7 inches tall (18cm). Condition Report Externally Spine fair to good condition worn, and rubbed with loss, gilt titles to red label, five raised bands. Joints poor to fair condition cracked or cracking. Corners fair condition rubbed and worn with loss. Boards fair to good condition original boards, marked and scratched. Page edges good condition top edge darkened, others tanned. See above and photos. Internally Hinges poor condition cracked through to the front hinge, sound to the rear. Paste downs good condition tanned and foxed, ink and pencil scribbles. End papers good condition tanned. Title good condition tanned, marks and foxing. Pages good condition tanned, marked and foxing, complete. Binding fair to good condition original. See photos. Publisher: see above. Publication Date: 1771 Binding: Hardback.