Flowers - A Garden Note Book, with suggestions for growing the choicest kinds.
by GARDENING. MAXWELL, Herbert
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
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LONDON, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Maclehose, Jackson, Glasgow., 1923. First edition. Small quarto. pp xvi, 250. Twelve colour plates from drawings by the author. One of 200 numbered copies printed on handmade paper. Publishers' binding of quarter brown morocco with cloth sides, lettered in gilt. Top edge gilt. Covers a little marked and scuffed with the loss of the word "Sir" on the spine. Very good.
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- Bookseller
- Peter Ellis bookseller
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- GARDENIN007654
- Title
- Flowers - A Garden Note Book, with suggestions for growing the choicest kinds.
- Author
- GARDENING. MAXWELL, Herbert
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Maclehose, Jackson, Glasgow.
- Date Published
- 1923
- Keywords
- gardening flowers
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- Cloth
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- Gilt
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- Quarto
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- Morocco
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