Search Results: pomarium britannicum an historical and botanical by phillips henry

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

London : Henry Colburn , 1823 . Third Edition . Good . 8VO . Third Edition, Considerably Enlarged and Improved. With three plates at rear, uncoloured in this edition. A non-circulating ex-library copy in original stamped floral boards. Rebacked in green cloth with original spine laid on but in need of rebacking again as new and old material missing a 33 mm high piece on upper spine, exposing the mull beneath. Bookplate on front pastedown, various interior stamps and markings, no pocket. Call letters on black tape on lower spine.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

London: Henry Colburn and Co, 1821. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Second Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A very good copy, bound in tan half leather with paper covered boards, Some wear to lower edge of front board (see image). Minor scattered foxing to early pages, otherwise clean and sound. 378pp + 4pp advertisements. List of subscribers. Lacks the three plates. A significant contemporary source for the history of fruit growing in Britain. Fifty species are dealt with here each selectively but extensively described in reference to the literature of horticulture and botany and with observations from the authors own experience..

This copy has a list of members of the Farningham Book Society, November 1821, inscribed on prelims. xi, 378 pages, 3 colour plates, [6] p. of publisher's advertisements. Second edition. Brown cloth boards. Shelf wear to cover, rebound and slightly trimmed, signature of E. Leslie Hunter front pastedown, small stamp 'bound by W.H. Smith and Son' rear pastedown. Photographs available on request. All books dispatched same or next working day in robust packaging.

London: Henry Colburn, 1827. Book. Good. Half-Leather. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Third edition. Dark green half-leather binding with marbled paper covered boards. Condition: Good, with general shelfwear and scuffing to covers. Spine has been rebacked at some point, not recently, with remains of original spine laid over. Later plain light brown endpapers. Binding sound. Previous owners name on front endpaper. Some light foxing to first and last few pages of text. Occasional pencil crosses in margins and very occasional underlining in pencil to text. 372pp. Three b/w (i.e. uncoloured) engraved botanical plates between pages 30 and 31, the first plate entitled "The Apple Blossom". Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Henry Phillips, 1820. Hardback, no dust-wrapper. Contemporary 1/2 callf binding, with marbled paper-covered boards. (8), vii, 378, (4) publisher's ads. pp. 23.5cm x 16cm. 3 colour plates. 1st edition 1820. Spine relaid, gilt titles to spine. Extremities slightly rubbed. Previous owner's bookplate to front pastedown. Front inner hinge split. End-papers a little foxed. Previous owner's details to title page and page opposite.. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket.

London: Henry Colburn and Co., 1821. Hardcover. Very Good. . Rebound with grean leather spine, gilt lettering, and marbled boards. Cover is in fine condition. Contemporary name of former owner on the title page. Pages are lightly tanned and foxed.

Princes Street, Hanover Square, London: T & J Allmann, 1822. Illustrated with three simple hand-coloured plates, octavo, pp xii, 378, extremely clean and sound inyternally, half calf and marbled boards, raised bands and leather label to the spine, very slight signs of wear. With the armorial bookplate of Sir Charles William Hamilton, 2nd Baronet, and his small neat signature on the title page. [Phillips lived much of his life on the south coast, and gained a national reputation as a landscape gardener. His first plan for the development of a lrge site in Kemp Town, Brighton, was rejected, but the second attempt five years later was accepted. His grandiose Anthaeum project, an elaborate indoor botanical garden topped by "the largest dome in the world", ended in disaster when the structure spectacularly collapsed just before its official opening. His ideas on the layout of plants and flowers in relation to their surroundings were influential. When Brighton and Hove City Council restored… Read More

Printed for T and A Allman. Very Good. 1821. Hardcover. Second edition, 1821, xi + 378pp + 6pp], 3 hand coloured litho plates, smartly bound in recent quater fawn cloth/marbled boards , Signed by WG Gaymer of Gaymers Cider on flyleaf , ; Octavo .