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London: Head of Zeus, 2019. Book. Illus. by Steve Nicholls. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 4to. 487pages; numerous full page colour illustrations. Original dust jacket fine, not price clipped. Hard back binding fine. Contents clean and tight, unmarked, no inscriptions. A fine copy, virtually as new..
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FLOWERS OF THE FIELD A Secret History of Meadows, Moor and Wood
by Nicholls, Steve
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GOD'S ACRE BEAUTIFUL or the Cemeteries of the Future
by Robinson, W. [William]
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London & New York: The Garden Office; Scribner and Welford, 1880. Book. Good. Hardcover. First Edition. Royal 8vo (22.5 x 14.5 cm). An important and rare book in which Robinson advocates cremation over burial, at a time when cremation was essentially illegal and a major public taboo; This copy ex-library and rebacked; pp. [2], vi, [2], 128; 8 leaves of steel-engraved plates, including frontispiece, and 11 in-text cuts. Publisher's blind embossed vellum (alluding to alabaster tombs?), the spine strip, which is chipped at the head and the tail laid down onto a new white cloth spine, vellum a little marked and rubbed, more so to rear board. Contents good and tight, new end papers, but retains front blank, the title page with a perforated stamp of Louisville Free Public Library to the title page, one further perforated stamp and several small, inconspicuous black stamps of the same to the text, a few leaves a little uneven at the edges where hurriedly opened. A good ex-library copy of the very…
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GOD'S ACRE BEAUTIFUL or the Cemeteries of the Future [INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR]
by Robinson, W. [William]
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London: John Murray, 1883. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). Third Edition. Royal 8vo (22.5 x 14.5 cm). An important and rare book in which Robinson advocates cremation over burial, at a time when cremation was essentially illegal and a major public taboo. This copy is inscribed by the author to the half-title page, "H. G. Spicer from the author June 7th 1910". [Henry Spicer - paper merchant and local philanthropist. He gifted in 1923, a playground consisting of a large sandpit to Victoria Tower Gardens, Westminster, also corresponded on plants and gifted bulbs to Royal Parks etc.]; pp. vi, [2], 152; 8 leaves of plates including 5 original, woodbury-type mounted photographs, and three steel-engravings, including frontispiece, the photographs and frontispiece with original tissue guards, and 14 in-text cuts. Publisher's blind embossed vellum (alluding to alabaster tombs?), vellum lightly marked and a little rubbed to spine. Contents clean and tight, original dark brown…
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HISTORIC GARDENS IN CORNWALL An Annotated List
by Hunt, David; Pett, Douglas Ellory
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Cornwall: The Cornwall Garden Society, 1991. Book. Fine. Paperback. First Edition. 8vo. 95 pages. Covers fine with minimal wear only. Contents clean and tight, unmarked, no inscriptions. A fine copy, clean and bright..
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THE NEW PRACTICAL GARDENER AND MODERN HORTICULTURIST
by Anderson, J. G.
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London: William Mackenzie, 1864. Book. Very Good. Half Leather. First Edition. 4to (18 x 25cm). No Date [but 1864/1875] pp. 988. Colour frontispiece (chromolithograph), 26 further finely printed coloured (chromolithograph) plates heightened by hand with gum arabic including five superb double plates 4 of which depict orchids, 12 further b/w plates, some of which double (14 of the colour plates are of various fruit). Attractive contemporary half dark brown calf binding with dark blue cloth boards, 5 raised bands to spine with simple gilt decoration, red spine label. Binding very good with slight genearl wear and a little light rubbing. Contents clean and tight, minimal spotting otherwise unmarked, plates clean and bright, a couple with minimal spotting, no inscriptions. A very good tight copy in an attractive binding with the full complement of plates..
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OF GARDENS AN ESSAY BY FRANCIS BACON
by Bacon, Francis
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Oxford: School of Art, 1961. Book. Very Good. Paperback. 4to (19 x 25cm). A well-produced printed booklet with dark green card wrappers, printed in black to the front cover, 12 pages. In very good condition, contents clean and tight, no inscriptions. A very good copy. "Designed and produced under the direction of Veronica Babington Smith, being the first project of her course in Book and Magazine Publishing, Autumn Term, 1961"..
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ROYAL KEW
by King, Ronald
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London: Constable, 1985. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 4to. 256 pages; colour and b/w illustrations. Original dust jacket fine with minimal wear, not price-clipped, now attractively presented in a loose-fitting clear archival sleeve. Hard back binding fine. Contents clean and tight, unmarked, no inscriptions, no foxing. A fine bright copy, virtually as new..
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The Story of Our Gardens
by Eastwood, Dorothea
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Bedford: Gordon Fraser, 1958. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st. B & W photo illus. Fine/Nr Fine. An excellent copy..
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Tulipes sauvages et Cultivees [wild and cultivated tulips]
by Stork, Adelaide L. et al
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Geneva: des Conservatoire et jardin Botaniques, 1984. Book. Very Good. Paperback. First Edition. 8vo. 185 pages; colour & b/w illustrations throughout. Text in French. Card covers very good with light wear only. Contents clean and tight. A very good copy. A comprehensive and scholarly work..
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