Flora Domestica; or, The Portable Flower-Garden: with directions for the treatment of plants in pots; and illustrations from the works of the poets
by Kent, Elizabeth
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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London, Greater London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Ave Maria Lane, London: Whittaker, Treacher & Co, 1831. New (i.e. Third) edition, with additions. Hand-coloured lithograph frontispiece, octavo, pp xliv, 464, the half-title and the last page are age-toned, otherwise the contents are extremely bright, recently bound in grey boards with a paper label on the spine. [After an introduction on literary treatments of flowers and bouquets, the text is arranged alphabetically by English vernacular name (Latin names used when no common name available), and each section includes history, cultivation details and quotations from poets on the subject. The conclusion offers six pages of "General observations" on the care of potted plants. Published anonymously, the author was Elizabeth Kent, the sister-in-law of the writer Leigh Hunt. She advertised botany classes for young ladies in The Times].. New Edition. Boards. Very Good.
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- Bookseller
- Mike Park Ltd (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 019750
- Title
- Flora Domestica; or, The Portable Flower-Garden: with directions for the treatment of plants in pots; and illustrations from the works of the poets
- Author
- Kent, Elizabeth
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- New Edition
- Publisher
- Whittaker, Treacher & Co
- Place of Publication
- Ave Maria Lane, London
- Date Published
- 1831
- Bookseller catalogs
- Garden History; Victorian; Early works;
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Mike Park Ltd
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London, Greater London
About Mike Park Ltd
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