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A scarce classic... The Book of Gardening - A handbook of horticulture, first edition 1900

A scarce classic... The Book of Gardening - A handbook of horticulture, first edition 1900

Regular price $86.00 NZD
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 The Book of Gardening - A handbook of horticulture is a lovely thick, gilted and embossed cloth hard cover treatise of all things horticulture in the Victorian age.
Very fully illustrated with over 700 engravings and b&w plates, edited by W.D. Drury and published by L. Upcott Gill of Drury Lane, London. 1198 pages! Plus several rear pages of Victorian era advertising. Measures 225mm by 170mm, 75mm thick.
This copy is in G+ condition with some spine tearing, a few loose sheets and minor foxing. Overall a nice tidy collectors copy of a scarce book.  

 

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