The Amateur's Greenhouse and Conservatory; A Handy Guide to the Construction and Management of Plant-Houses, and the Selection, Cultivation and Improvement of Ornamental Greenhouse and Conservatory Plants
by HIBBERD, Shirley;
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- Hardcover
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Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
London, Groombridge and Sons, 1880, . . original green cloth, decorated in black and gilt, gilt lettering, edges lightly rubbed, clippings from other sources on plants pasted on endpapers, internal hinges cracking but firm, a nice clean copy, very good. . 12mo [19 x 13 cm]; [ii], 272 pp, 6 folding color plates (chromolithographs) including frontis, numerous other illustrations including full-page, index. . The author was a popular gardening author of the Victorian period. The color plates are of flowers and the many other illustrations include greenhouses and plans, conservatories, equipment, Victorian vases, plants, etc. This was first published in 1873 and reprinted a number of times, apparently unchanged, although the later printings had only the colored frontis but without the other fine colored plates. Horticultural Society of New York catalogue p. 99. Massachusetts Horticultural Society catalogue p. 140. A picture of this book is available on request by email.
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- Horizon Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- J5321
- Title
- The Amateur's Greenhouse and Conservatory; A Handy Guide to the Construction and Management of Plant-Houses, and the Selection, Cultivation and Improvement of Ornamental Greenhouse and Conservatory Plants
- Author
- HIBBERD, Shirley;
- Format/Binding
- Original green cloth, decorated in black and gilt, gilt lettering, edges lightly rubbed, clippings from other sources on plants
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- London, Groombridge and Sons, 1880, .
- Size
- 12mo [19 x 13 cm]; [ii], 272 pp,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Gardening - General;
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