The Victorian Gardener: The Growth of Gardening & the Floral World
by Wilkinson, Anne; Flowerdew, Bob (Foreword by)
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- Hardcover
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- ISBN 10
- 0750940433
- ISBN 13
- 9780750940436
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About This Item
Thrupp, Stroud, Glos.: Sutton Publishing, 2006. Cloth, xx, 236 pages, illustrations (some colour); 26 cm. Tight, clean copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. A fine copy of the first printing. "Gardening is one of the most popular leisure activities today, and most people take it for granted not only that suitable plants and equipment are easily available, but that there is plenty of information to guide and inform gardeners. It was not always so. It was only in the 1860s that the foundations for modern amateur gardening as we know it today were laid down - before then middle-class garden owners had to learn the new skills needed by trial, error and hard work. This book recreates for us the world of the Victorian gardener - not the doyenne at the head of the large estates but the amateur and small time gardener in towns and villages. These amateur gardeners had to write the books themselves and create their own gardening magazines because professionals refused to believe that gardens in towns were a practical possibility. Through persistence, dogged determination and belief that gardening could be not only interesting and profitable, but enjoyable, amateur gardeners turned the horticultural world upside down. In this fascinating, richly illustrated new book Anne Wilkinson draws on the vast wealth of contemporary gardening magazines and other sources to give us an extraordinary insight into the Victorian gardener." - Publisher.. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 4to. Collectible.
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- Title
- The Victorian Gardener: The Growth of Gardening & the Floral World
- Author
- Wilkinson, Anne; Flowerdew, Bob (Foreword by)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- 1st
- ISBN 10
- 0750940433
- ISBN 13
- 9780750940436
- Publisher
- Sutton Publishing
- Place of Publication
- Thrupp, Stroud, Glos.
- Date Published
- 2006
- Size
- 4to
- Keywords
- COLLECTIBLE
- Bookseller catalogs
- XXX / COLLECTIBLES; European / 7. Late 19th Century; Architecture / Landscape Design & Gardening; Genre & Subject / Botanical;
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