The Living Garden: The 400-year History of an English Garden
by George Ordish
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- ISBN 10
- 0395387809
- ISBN 13
- 9780395387801
- Seller
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Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, United States
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About This Item
Houghton Mifflin Company, 1985. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 263 pages, with index, bibliography, list of mentioned flora and fauna, chronological and genealogical tables of people who owned Barton's End since 1556. 33 illustrations - line drawings of flora and fauna, some garden-layout diagrams. 8vo, dove gray paper over boards with black cloth quarter, silver gilt lettering on spine, boards sunned at extremities, scant shelf wear, faint foxing to end papers, smudges to a few pages. In worn DJ with creases, rubbing, chips and tears. Pencil note on ffep by former owner Prof. Ann E. Berthoff recording whom the book was a gift from; her marginalia in pencil observed on two other pages.
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- Bookseller
- Berthoff Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- AEB-483
- Title
- The Living Garden: The 400-year History of an English Garden
- Author
- George Ordish
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0395387809
- ISBN 13
- 9780395387801
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1985
- Keywords
- HORTICULTURE, SMALL MAMMALS, BIRDS, LAND USE, HEDGES, LAWN GAMES, BARTON'S END
- Bookseller catalogs
- English History; Horticulture;
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