Practical Gardener Department Improved System by Abercrombie John (1 results)

Half-Leather. Condition: Good. Title continues "containing full and clear directions for the laying-out and culture of the kitchen garden, fruit garden, flower garden, shrubbery, pleasure ground, nursery and timber plantation; also, the construction and management of the green-house, or conservatory, hot-house, and forcing garden. With copious tables of plants for each department, systematically divided where they embrace different classes, enlarged so as to comprehend new varieties and recently-discovered species, and made conformable, in the names, with the latest botanical arrangements. The whole alphabetically arranged, in separate treatises", 1813, 1st edition, pp. (vii) viii-xxiv 5-664, half title, early half calf, marbled boards and page edges, worn, lacks Q6&7 (pages 347-350), small wormhole in lower margin throughout, approx. half the pages are toned (more heavily in 2 signatures), modern woodcut bookplate by Andy English on the front pastedown, 12mo.