Gardening for the Million
by PINK, Arthur; [Helen SCARLETT, LADY ABINGER]
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good-only
- Seller
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Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1910. Cloth. Good-only. 8vo, incl colour frontis. Publisher's navy pictorial cloth, lettered in white. Rubbed, bruised and soiled. Toned and foxed, inscribed in black ink to recto of frontis: "To P. Robinson from Lady Abinger", spine cracked in a number of places, but binding firm. Else, clean. Good-only An intriguing copy of Pink's popular and popularising gardening book, inscribed by Lady Abinger, presumably, to an aspirant (but unidentified) gardener. Helen Scarlett, Lady Abinger (1840-1915) was mother to two extraordinary daughters, Ella Campbell Scarlett (1864-1937), the first woman doctor in Bloemfontein, South Africa and at the Royal Columbian Hospital, Canada, and Evangelina Haverfield (1867-1920), Suffragette, aid worker, and partner of Vera Jack Holme.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Quair Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2746
- Title
- Gardening for the Million
- Author
- PINK, Arthur; [Helen SCARLETT, LADY ABINGER]
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Good-only
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- T. Fisher Unwin
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1910
- Bookseller catalogs
- Signed & Association Copies;
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About the Seller
Quair Books
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Leeds, West Yorkshire
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Inscribed
- When a book is described as being inscribed, it indicates that a short note written by the author or a previous owner has been...
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
- Recto
- The page on the right side of a book, with the term Verso used to describe the page on the left side.
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...