Man Own Gardener Complete Gardeners by Mawe Thomas Abercrombie John (46 results)

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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.

Leather. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 22nd Edition. The Twenty-Second Edition 1822; 726pp; good condition for age; apparently original leather binding; front cover damaged; spine little faded; corners little bumped (see photo); front board slightly hinged; some foxing, little tanning and marks ; writing and name on ffep; Ref M.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. the Fifth Edition. The Fifth Edition, 1771; "Corrected, Enlarged, and very much Improved " Printed for William Griffin, at Garrick's Head, in Catharine-Street, Strand 1771; Rebound retaining original spine (as per photo); 489pp plus Index; red blocking ( as photo) ; illustration to title page (tiny tear to illustration ); previous owner's notes on front endpaper confirming "this Volume was published in 1771"; blue ribbon attached; Ref: M.

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.".

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.

New edition. Revised & improved edition, 1860, in blind-stamped khaki cloth with gilt. Lacks front free end paper & half-title; damage to front pastedown where label removed; title page a little yellowed; text generally clean. Cloth on spine browned, with wear at head & foot Used - Acceptable. Fair hardback Used - Acceptable. Fair hardback.

Cloth. Condition: Good. 23rd. Original green cloth which ia marked and lacks title label, 688pp, the 23rd edition with improvements by James Main, directions for all work necessary for every month of the year, with practical directions for raising, propagating and forcing, and with a complete systematic catalogue of plants proper for cultivation in British Gardens, Previous owners card attached to front pastedown, page edges browned, binding tight.

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.

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.

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.

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. 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.

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.

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.

vii[i], 758 pp, large index section to rear, frontis plate. Contemporary full tan calf gilt, green calf gilt spine label. 17.5 cm x 11 cm. Random markings to leather, rubbing to extremes, contents age browned.

Brown hardback cloth cover. Condition: Very Good. Eighth Edition. VG : in very good condition. Rebound with new eps. Some occasional light browning. 180mm x 110mm (7" x 4"). ii, 486pp, + index. Frontis engraving.