Cory reginald (1 Ergebnisse)

Cloth. Zustand: Good. First Edition. Many coloured and half-tone photographic plates, large thick quarto, pp xvi, 500, top edge gilt, the endpapers rather age-toned, original brown lightly decorated buckram, dull and slightly worn. As usual the plates are slightly dusty internally and a little waved. From the library of the botanist and garden historian Anthony Huxley, with his stamp on the front endpaper. A good association copy, as Huxley was an RHS council member for many years. VERY SCARCE. [ A record of the first flower show to be held on the Chelsea site. Although owing its inception to the Royal Horticultural Society, it was actually organized by a small private company. The work was published at Cory's expense).…