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Verlag: John Harding, 1810
Anbieter: Prior Books Ltd, Cheltenham, Vereinigtes Königreich
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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. A New Improved Edition. Full leather gilt ruled hardback, professionally rebacked, showing well, firm and square, strong joints, just rubbed with slightly worn corners. Contents sporadically browned and foxed, even so in very good shape, endleaves renewed, generally clean and tight throughout with no pen-marks, no stamps, no labels. Size: 8vo (235mm x 140mm); collation: pp. vi, [2], 271 (i.e. 273), complete with 9pp (plate descriptions) and 8 hand-coloured engraved plates showing flowers, vegetables and gardening equipment, etc. Bibliographic references: BMNH 1296. Henry II, p. 393.
Verlag: New [Second] Edition. Pub. Harding, London. 1810, 1810
Anbieter: C. Arden (Bookseller) ABA, Hay-on-Wye, Vereinigtes Königreich
pp.vi, [ii], 271, [16] with 8 fine, hand-coloured, copper engraved plates plus 4-page Publisher s catalogue. 8vo. Hardback. Professional repair to blank corner of one plate. Overall contents nr. fine. Two ownership insc., one dated 1826, the other 1864. More recent full calf leather binding, by Bayntun-Riviere of Bath, with gilt lettering and blind decoration in nr. fine condition. A very pleasing copy indeed. Maddock & Son were one of the most noted nurseries and cultivators of florist s flowers of this period. The Florist s Directory is considered to have been the best English book on florist s flowers for around 30 years. Five plates finely illustrate varieties of Hyacinth, Auricula, Polyanthus, Ranunculas, Tulips, Anemone, Carnation and Picotee. The other three illustrate roots and cultivation equipment including a frame or awning and a winter repository for Auriculas and Carnations.