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THE PRACTICAL GARDENER AND GENTLEMANS DIRECTORY FOR EVERY MONTH OF THE YEAR.
by GARTON, James.:
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- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Oxford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London, printed for E. and C. Dilly, in the Poultry, 1769.. TITLE CONTINUED: Adapted to the New Stile. AN ENTIRE NEW WORK. Containing The latest and most approved METHODS. OF CULTIVATING and IMPROVING the Kitchen, Flower, Fruit, and Physic Garden; And for Managing THE VINEYARD and PINE-APPLE. The Nursery, Shrubbery, Greenhouse, and Hothouse. With proper Directions for Raising Mushrooms. To which is prefixed, AN ESSAY upon Vegetation, Soil, Manure, and the Nature and Form of Stoves, Hot-beds. WITH A Copper-plate, exhibiting at One View the several Aspects for Planting a Fruit-Garden. FIRST EDITION 1769. 8vo, approximately 170 x 100 mm, 6¾ x 4 inches, 1 folding plate, pages: [10],1-285, [9], bound in original old sheep with new calf spine, 2 gilt lettered maroon labels to spine with gilt decoration and date, old endpapers. Light wear and staining to covers and corners, slight browning to edges of folding plate and 1 small brown stain, 1 fold neatly strengthened on blank side, 2 tiny repairs to plate at edge of lower margin, tiny hole to page 180 neatly repaired, loss to 1 letter, tiny hole to last blank endpaper, pale offset to some pages, otherwise a very clean tight copy. See: Blanche Henrey, British Botanical and Horticultural Literature before 1800, Volume 3, page 46, No. 740; H. Frederic Janson, Pomona's Harvest, page 217: "a wide knowledge and sound instructions in grafting make one of the numerous British gardening calendars of the time stand out", also listed on pages 361-362; G.E. Fussell, More Old English Farming Books, page 144; ESTC T114071. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.
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- Bookseller
- Roger Middleton
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 47757
- Title
- THE PRACTICAL GARDENER AND GENTLEMANS DIRECTORY FOR EVERY MONTH OF THE YEAR.
- Author
- GARTON, James.:
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Place of Publication
- London, printed for E. and C. Dilly, in the Poultry, 1769.
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- gardening fruit garden orchards vines flowers pineapple herbs greenhouse hothouse nursery shrubbery mushrooms
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Roger Middleton
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Oxford, Oxfordshire
About Roger Middleton
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