Self-Instruction for Young Gardeners, Foresters, Bailiffs, Land-Stewards, and Farmers

London : Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans , 1845. First edition. Cloth. Good. 9" by 5.5". Not Stated . A first edition copy of Self-Instruction for Young Gardeners. A first edition copy. Self-Instruction for Young Gardeners, Foresters, Bailiffs, Land-Stewards, and Farmers is an indispensable guide in arithmetic and book-keeping, geometry, practical trigonometry, land surveying, planning and mapping, architectural drawing and perspective. With in-text illustrations and diagrams. With adverts to the rear. From the library of Doctor Malcolm Higgs, an important architectural historian who worked as an assistant architect to Stirling & Gowan, working on their particularly renowned Leicester University Engineering Laboratory. During his long career he taught at the University of Edinburgh School of Architecture, Canterbury School of Architecture, and University of Nottingham. Later in his life he was the Vice-President and Honorary Librarian of the Royal Institute of British Architects, and contributed and edited the "Journal of Architecture". In the publisher's original cloth. Externally, smart with some fading to the spine and bumping to the head and tail of the spine. The hinges are starting but remain firm. With a bookplate to the front pastedown for Crescent. Internally, firmly bound with generally bright pages with some spotting to the first few pages. Good