Gardeners Assistant Practical Scientific by Thompson Robert Moore Thomas (10 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. (Ref. U2) Half black leather bound to brown cloth boards with gilt titles. Rubbed at extremities, corners, edges. A little cracked at head and heel spine hinges. Cloth at rear board becoming disattached. Wear to lower edge of boards. Owner's signature to front endpaper. Foxing to prelims. Hinge cracked inside but still firmly bound. Uniformly yellowed pages with occasional smudges and marks to some edges otherwise good. **Heavy volumes will extra shipping. Please message for details prior to ordering.**.

Encyclopaedic [956pp with many illustrations] work on gardening wich wa sinfluential in country houses and larger estates in Victorian times. Rebound in half leather with raised bands. Gutters reinforced at front and rear pastedowns and endpapers. Some handling marks throughout but generally VG. Large and heavy volume. Extra postage may be requested for overseas orders.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. New edition, revised and extended. 10" x 7". 23pp + lii + 32 plates(12 cold) + 956pp. Hinges very weak, prelims loose, foxing to fore edge, else, very good hardback in publishers original gilt and black stamped green cloth.

Decorative Cloth. Condition: Near Good. No Jacket. Title Continues " with a copious Calendar of Gardening Operations, and Select Lists of Plants, Fruit and Vegetables." NEW EDITION, REVISED AND EXTENDED BY THOMAS MOORE, assisted by eminent Practical Gardeners. Beautifully Illustrated with 32 Colour & Monochrome Plates and small In-Text Illustrations. Text arranged in Double Columns. Green cloth cover with Black Decoration to front, rear & spine. Gilt Lettering to spine. Beveled Edges. Antique inscription on half-title page dated 1886. 956 Pages + Publisher's adverts. 10 1/2" Tall. Some edge wear and a little rubbing to cloth and a small faded patch in top corner (see photo). Closed tear to cloth down most of left side of spine. Hinges cracked and reinforced with white hinge tape. Pages & Plates in good, clean condition, only an occasional spot of light foxing. Weighs 2.7 Kilos so Shipping outside UK will be extra. Please ask if you would like more pictures, information or a Shipping Quote. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Leather. Condition: Good. Not Stated (illustrator). Vibrantly illustrated with colour plates, this is an extensive guide to gardening with a loosely inserted 1881 florist's order form. A New Edition of this work, 'revised and extended' by Thomas Moore.Illustrated with thirty-two plates, including twelve chromolithographs. Collated, complete.'The Gardener's Assistant' offers a guide to the formation and management of the kitchen, fruit, and flower gardens, and the cultivation and conservatory greenhouse and stove plants, with a copious calendar of gardening operations and selects lists of plants, fruits and vegetables. The object of the work was to describe fully and clearly the principle operations which have to be performed in order to insure success in the management of a garden.With the bookplate of Harry Sea of Bushey, dated July 1878, to the front pastedown.Loosely inserted is a handwritten Hertfordshire florist's order form, dated 1881 and covering 'accounts due midsummer & Xmas', billed by H. Lane & Son, Nurserymen, Seedsmen and Florists. Among the flowers purchased are lupins, godetias, and Sweet Sutton. In a half calf binding, with cloth covered boards. Lacking spine label. Significant rubbing to back strip head and tail, joints, and board perimeters. Rear joint head and tail starting, with board somewhat tender. Front joint starting, with board held weakly to the tail only. Bookplate to front pastedown. Internally, firmly bound. Pages lightly age toned. Significant spotting to first and last few leaves, and pages surrounding plates. Good. book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 2nd Edition. 1881 edition - revised and extended by Thomas Moore. Large Thick Octavo. 23pp, plates, lii, 956pp plus adverts. Illustrated with 32 colour and monochrome plates. Original green cloth, gilt titles, printed decorative ruling. Some rubbing to extremities. Former owner's signature to reverse of end paper. Spotting and foxing to first and final few leaves, text-block and sporadically to the margins. The colour plates are nice and bright. Overall a 'Very Good' copy in it's original state. Heavy - shipping to be advised.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Large Octavo, 10 in. x 6.75 in., p. 956. Illustrated with thirty-two plates; the first twelve, including the frontispiece, are in color. Dark green half calf with ruling in gilt and blind; gilt title on red panel, and gilt horizontal double-bars, to spine. Publisher's red-brown edges. Rubbing to extremities. Bottom corners exposed. Two wrinkles to back board. Front hinge just starting, but solid; front free endpaper partially separated. Occasional light spotting. Spine tight. Heavy Book.

Half-Bound Leather. Condition: Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. No Edition Stated. Half-bound leather w/marbled page ends and endpapers; pages slightly toning w/little bit of light foxing, rubbing to edges of leather w/a 1-1/2" tear to bottom spine corner, moisture mark to front cover, little bit of light soiling ; 956 pages.

Cloth. Condition: Very good. Small 4to; 956pp + 4 advertisements; green pebbled cloth over beveled-edged boards, black stamped decoration, gilt-stamped spine; brown glazed endpapers; heavy book, binding holding tight; color frontispiece plus 11 additional color inserted plates and 20 plates in black and white precede text, all numbered; b&w illustrations and tables throughout text; bookplate to rear pastedown; damp staining to bottom edge, scattered foxing to the first 15 pages as well as some of the tissue guards and borders of the plates; very good. $250.00. Extensive discourse on gardens from planting designs to tools to plants. Bookplate of the Rt. Honorable William Henry Smith (1825-1891) of England, located on the rear pastedown and inserted upside-down. Smith was instrumental in the family business of W.H. Smith as a book and newspaper seller. He was elected to Parliament in 1868 and promoted to First Lord of Admiralty without seafaring experience. It is said that he was possibly the model for the H.M.S. Pinafore operetta character, Sir Joseph Porter. He later served as Secretary of State for War, First Lord of the Treasury and Leader of the House of Commons. Smith's crest of a shield, with an extended arm holding oak leaves, appears on the bookplate with the title "Deo Non Fortuna Fretus" or loosely translated, "From God, not from Luck". Sold along with the publisher's dummy book.

nuova edizione, riveduta ed estesa. Legatura coeva in mezza pelle blu con angoli, piatti in percallina, dorso con nervi, titoli su tassello rosso e fregi impressi in oro, tagli marmorizzati, testo in inglese su due colonne, numerose illustrazioni in b/n nel testo, 32 tavole fuori testo di cui 12 in cromolitografia (8 di quest'ultime, protette da carta velina, rappresentano altrettante varietà di fiori su disegni di J.L. Macfarlane e W. H. Fitch), etichetta dell'editore al contropiatto posteriore. Restauro amatoriale alla cerniera del piatto posteriore, abrasioni agli angoli della legatura, all'interno in ottimo stato. in 8° pp. [2], 23, [1], LII, 956, [2]+ 32 c. di tavv. f.t.