The Tradescants : Their Plants, Gardens and Museums 1570-1662 by Allan, Mea - 1964

Michael Joseph, 1964. Jacket rubbed and chipped, owner details to ffep, content clean and tidy.. Hard. Very Good/Good. 8vo.

London,: Michael Joseph,, 1964. Hardcover Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo. 345pp. Original green cloth with gilt spine titles. A near fine copy in a lightly worn and used, very good indeed dust jacket.

London. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Cloth; Michael Joseph; 1964; First . Edition. Allan, Mea. The Tradescants Their Plants, Gardens, and Museums 1570-1662. London: Michael Joseph, 1964, First Edition, 345 pp. Illustrated dust wrapper by Clifford Russell, price clipped. Green cloth boards with gilt titles to the spine, illustrated end papers. Colour frontispiece and numerous black and white photographs and illustrations thru out. First edition, 345 pages with appendices, references, bibliography, index, and fold-out time line. Very good, slight wear to edges, scattered foxing through out. From the private library of Thomas Lovejoy (name and date inside front free end paper). ; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall .

London,: Michael Joseph,, 1964. Hardcover Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo. 345pp. Original green cloth with gilt spine titles. Slight wear otherwise very good indeed in a slightly edge rubbed and chipped, near very good dust jacket.

London : M. Joseph, 1964. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges slightly dust-toned and rubbed as with age. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. Provenance: previous owner's inscription. Physical description: 345 pages: illustrations, facsimiles, folded genealogical table, maps, plates (some color) portraits; 24 cm. Notes: Appendices (p. [233]-312): I. The garden list of John Tradescant the Elder, 1634.--II. Musaeum Tradescantianum: or, A collection of rarities preserved at South-Lambeth neer London, by J. Tradescant. 1656. Subjects: Tradescant, John -1637. Tradescant (Family). Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. Horticulture History. Horticulture. Horticulture Great Britain History. Horticulturists Great Britain Biography. Plant collectors. Plant Taxonomy. Genre: Biographies. History. Illustrated.

London: Michael Joseph, 1964. First edition. Cloth. Fine/Fine. 9" by 6" . Not Stated . A bright first edition in its colourful dust wrapper of this biography and study of John Tradescant and his son by Mea Allan. The first edition of this work. Illustrated with coloured frontispiece as well as twenty-six further black and white plates including reproductions of excellent portraits of the Tradescant family by Wenceslaus Hollar. Collated, complete/ Study of the work John Tradescant and his son, royal gardeners in the times of Charles I and Charles II. The Tradescants were one of the first botanists to collect specimens of plants, bringing to England its first lilac as well as hundred of the flowers and trees that we know in our gardens today. Written by Mea Allan, journalist of the twentieth century. Complete with unclipped dust wrapper. In the original publisher's full cloth binding. Externally lovely. Dust wrapper unclipped and excellent. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean. Fine