Warwick House, London: Ward, Lock & Co. Cloth. Good+/No Jacket. Beautifully illustrated with 3 Double Page Colour Plates illustrating 54 Plants. Also B&W In-Text Illustrations. Text arranged in Double Columns. Green cloth spine with Red cloth covered Boards. Gilt Grounds to Lettering and a little decoration on front & spine. 419 Pages + publisher's catalogue. Undated Edition, late 19th C. 7 3/4" Tall, 500g. Some edgewear and a little fading to cloth. Small closed tear (1" long) on right side of spine and a little fraying at spine ends. Contemporary adverts on yellow endpapers including Whelptons Pills. Previous owner's name on back of frontis, no other inscriptions. 2 Very small closed tears to inner margin of half-title pages. Very slight age darkeneing to pages otherwise in very good, clean condition. Size: 12mo - over 6Â¾" - 7Â¾" tall

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Bookseller: Cornish Books (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 014298
Title: BEETON'S DICTIONARY OF EVERY-DAY GARDENING : Constituting a Popular Cyclopaedia of the Theory and Practice of Horticulture. Embellished with COLOURED PLATES Made After Original Water-Coloured Drawings Copied from Nature
Format/Binding: Cloth
Book Condition: Used - Good+
Jacket Condition: No Jacket
Quantity Available: 1
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Ward, Lock & Co
Place of Publication: Warwick House, London
Keywords: GARDENING/GENERAL/MRS BEETON
Bookseller catalogs: Gardening;

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