Man Own Gardener Being Complete by Mawe Thomas Abercrombie John (53 results)

Condition: New. In.

Condition: New. In.

Condition: New. In.

Condition: New. In.

Hard Back/Hard Cover. Condition: Fair ++/Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dustjacket. Twenty-Fifth Edition. xvi + 415 pages incl. index. No dustjacket, Light brown hardback binding with ornate light impressing to boards, bronzing to spine, some light browning to boards/small marks. Wear with small splits to spine-ends, 1cm slit to top front hinge, boards' corners are rounded with small creases. Light wear to edges, foxing/edge staining to frontispiece & rear, page-edges are a bit age-darkened. Binding slightly pulled in one or two-places but very sound. Text has a light wave to pages & a few small blotches/foxings to margins. Reasonably clean & in nice condition throughout.

Condition: New. SUPER FAST SHIPPING.

Full-Leather. Condition: Fair/Good. (iv) 658 10pp, engraved frontispiece and 5 plates (all foxed), later diced calf (worn and rubbed, joints starting, corners bumped), some foxing and staining throughout, modern woodcut bookplate by Andy English on front pastedown, 8vo (225x133mm).

Full-Leather. Condition: Fair. (ii) 658 10pp, engraved frontispiece and 5 engraved plates, contemporary calf, sometime rebacked, spine blindstamped, heavy stain to the bottom half of the first 20 leaves including the title and plates, some othet stains (maunly marginal), a few gathers towards the end browned, some soiling and foxing throughout, tear in P1 with the loss of a few letters, ink inscription on rear free endpaper ("Charles Dilling Gardener May 1827 with Mr Kemp Neath(?) Lodge near Cardiff), modern woodcut bookplate by Andy English on front pastedown, 8vo (214x130mm).

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. 20th edition, engraved portrait frontispiece (offset onto title), vi (ii) 812pp, modern green cloth, pages 596 and 597 soiled, modern woodcut bookplate by Andy English on front pastedown, 12mo (178x109mm).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 'Every Man His Own Gardener Being a Complete Gardener's Calendar and General Directory' by Thomas Mawe and John Abercrombie. C. J. G. and F. Rivington 1829 23rd edition. Full leather, rebacked with gilt lettering and new endpapers. Some spotting. A good, solid copy.

Leather. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. vii + 758pp + unpaginated lengthy index to rear; 18th edition; Leather boards bumped and leather worn away in some spots; Front board very loose; Wear to head and tail of spine and maroon title label still present but peeling; Minor historic insect damage to front pastedown and prelims (about 5 pages) not affecting text block or text; Otherwise internally solid, bright and tight; Digital photos available on request; Book.

Full Leather. Condition: Fair. Nineteenth ed. Leather scuffed and rubbed with major loss to rear, although board itself still in tact. Boards loose as hinges cracked. Cracks to spine also with loss to head and foot. Appears to lack any front endpapers, inscription to front pastedown. Small tears to frontis and title page, some light staining throughout, else pp good apart from the odd page corner crease. Size: 12mo.

Cloth. Condition: Good/Very Good. 22nd ed, engraved portrait fontispiece, vii (1)advert 726pp, modern blue cloth, preliminariess browned (portrait & title heavily so), some marks and browning elsewhere, a few light spots, modern woodcut bookplate on front pastedown, 12mo (11x18cm).

Leather Bound. Thirteenth Edition. pp. 616 plus index. 8vo. Leatherbound. General shelfwear, front board present but detached, pages thumbed and light foxing throughout, tide lines to page ends of bottom edge; good+. "Containing not only an account of what work is necessary to be done in the kitchen and fruit garden, pleasure ground, flower garden and shrubbery; nursery, green-house, and hot-house, for every month of the year, but also ample practical directions for performing said work, according to the newest and most approved methods now in practice among the best gardeners. With complete practical directions for forcing all kinds of choice plants, flowers and fruits, to early perfection, in hot beds, hot houses, hot walls, forcing frames, forcing houses, vineries, etc. Also particular directions relative to soil and situation, adapted to the different sorts of plants and trees, etc. And to the whole are added, complete and useful lists of kitchen garden plants, fruit trees, forest trees, flowering shrubs, evergreens, annual, biennial and perennial fibrous rooted flowers, bulbous and tuberous rooted flowers, green house and hot house plants, proper for cultivation in the English gardens and plantations, etc. And to which, in this edition, are added, additional systematic general catalogues of hardy herbaceous perennials and biennials, and of hot house plants (not in any former edition) with general explanations of their nature and culture.".

21st ed. Owner's name on title page (dated 1830); some foxing; spine joints cracked but tight; leather on spine scuffed & slightly cracked; lacks spine title label. With frontis portrait of John Abercrombie Used - Good. Good hardback in full leather.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Thick 12mo. Pp 658. Frontis. Original publisher's paper-covered boards with printed paper title label to spine. Light wear to all extremities. Internally tight & clean. A pleasing copy.

Quarter-leather. Condition: Very Good. "Improved and brought down 1839, by James Main. With notes and additions, and the catalogue of plants and fruits corrected to the present day by George Glenny". xvi 415 [1], engraved frontispiece of Abercrombie, engraved plate of trained tree shapes, moderm calf backed marbled boards, plain gilt lettered spine, new endpapers, paper toned throughout, modern woodcut bookplate by Andy English on front pastedown, 8vo (18.7x11cm).

Full-Leather. Condition: Very Good. 11th edition, [ii] 616 [19]pp, lacks frontispiece, modern blind ruled calf with gilt lettered spine, signature cut from top of title, small stain to bottom right hand corner of pages just touching the text in places, modern woodcut bookplate on front pastedown, 12mo (10.5x18.5cm), Henrey 1062, ESTC N9524.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Sixteenth edition 1800, vii+ 758pp+94pp index, staining tp fronits an title page new endpapers, bound in recent quarter leater/marbled boards by Ipsley Bindery, red leather spine label, raised bans and gilt lettering and lining. Lovely looking book; Octavo.

Full-Leather. Condition: Very Good. 15th edition, [ii] 702 [48]pp, frontispiece, contemporary calf (somewhat worn, particularly the back cover where there is some loss of leather at the bottom), modern reback with blind ruled spine and red morocco label, pages 559-570 bound in the wrong order, occasional light spotting, modern woodcut bookplate on front free endpaper, early 19th century cutting glued to front pastedown, 12mo (10x17.5cm), Henrey 1067, ESTC T33569.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. 24th ed, (iv) 720 pp, engraved frontispiece, original green blindstamped cloth, edges bumped, faded & slightly worn, last page of index torn away, front inner hinge split, 8vo (11x19.5cm).

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. (iv) 698 pp, engraved frontispiece, original green blindstamped cloth, corners bumped, spine slightly faded, front inner hinge split, one section slightly sprung, 8vo (11x19.5cm).

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. 24th ed, 658 10pp, original green blindstamped cloth, edges bumped, faded & slightly worn, one section partly sprung, 8vo (11x19.5cm).

Hardcover. Condition: Poor. Engraving Frontispiece (illustrator). 5th or later Edition. 16mo, Hardcover, Full Calf, 1797, 12th Edition, PP.702 Plus Extensive Index, A Classic Text Binding Copy, Covers Loose, Worn, Spine Split At Two Registers; Joseph Watsons Bookplate, Thomas Henry Watsons Signature At Title Page.

Vortitel, gest. Frontispiz (John Abercrombie), vi,812 Seiten ; 12mo. Leder-Einband der Zeit. (The twentieth edition, corrected and greatly enlarged, .) - (kl. Fehlstelle am Rücken; Vortitel mit Randabschnitt).

Original Cloth, Recased. Condition: Very Good. Revised Edition. Revised to 1857 by George Glenny. Color frontispiece. Neatly recased with new endpapers, preserving the original cloth spine.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. frontis (illustrator). 26th edition. A very nice copy bound in green buckrum faded to brown on the spine with gilt title cover are heavily embossed in blind decorations. A lovely frontis of John Abercrombie in his garden . Book is clean and tight. Very scarce in this lovely condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Seventh Edition. Clean hardback tightly bound in full brown leather with gilt titles to red spine panel, 5 raised bands, spine is a recent professional replacement, original frontispiece missing, contemporary engravings pasted down to front & rear pastedowns of new endpapers, some browning to page edges, 2 pencilled drawings and a name to the rear blank endpapers (could be erased if thought necessary), inked note (dated 1807) in margin of page 313, otherwise no inscriptions. ii + 498 pages, index. A sound & very attractive copy of this much-reprinted gardening classic.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Revised and Enlarged Edition. Octavo; 658, 10 pages of Index, leaf 527/528 tear repaired with archival tape; new quarter sheep, marbled boards, new endpapers. [ See Sowerby 803 for the 1767 edition ]. Thomas Mawe was the gardener to the Duke of Leeds. John Abercrombie was a gardener, a vegetarian, and a prolific writer about gardens. Abercrombie had worked in the Kew Gardens, and for successive wealthy patrons. The first edition of this work appeared in 1767, and, tho written by Abercrombie, gave credit to Mawe, who only endorsed it. With five engraved plates, including a portrait frontispiece of Abercrombie standing in a garden holding a spade. This 19th century edition was enlarged and improved by Richard Forsyth.