Verlag: London: Groombridge and Sons, 1878, 1878
Anbieter: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, Vereinigtes Königreich
[Gardening] FINE COLOUR PLATES. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.vi; 378 [2]. With 14 fine colour-illustrated plates, including a frontispiece, and numerous in-text engravings. Contemporary brown half calf, with gilt titles to spine and marbled paper over boards. All edges speckled red. Truro bookseller's label to front pastedown. Hinges starting. Light occasional spotting, and a couple of creases to frontispiece. Some mis-folding and a few small tears to folding plates. Moderate general wear to binding, with leather lost to one corner, gilt rubbed from spine, and pulling to head. Good. A bound volume of Hibberd's popular Victorian garden periodical, featuring numerous impressive colour plates.
Verlag: London: Groombridge And Sons, 1883., 1883
Anbieter: D & E LAKE LTD. (ABAC/ILAB), Toronto, ON, Kanada
8vo. pp. 1 p.l., 272, [16]ads. 4 chromolithographed plates (2 folding) & numerous wood-engravings in the text (some full-page). original black & gilt-stamped cloth (light wear to extremities, inner hinges partly cracked, light foxing to plates, former owner's rubberstamp on title & front flyleaf).
Verlag: London: Groombridge And Sons, 1857., 1857
Anbieter: D & E LAKE LTD. (ABAC/ILAB), Toronto, ON, Kanada
Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 8vo. pp. xv, 508 + [10]ads. each page bordered with entwined ivy leaf design. 9 wood-engraved plates (7 printed in colours from wood blocks by Benjamin Fawcett after drawings by G.Voyer; incl. additional title) & numerous wood-engraved text illus. (a few full-page) by E.Whymper, F. Lydon & others. original gilt-stamped cloth with large gilt garden vignette on covers, all edges gilt (spine dull, upper rear joint frayed, light wear to extremities). Second Edition, substantially revised and enlarged. A detailed manual for the amateur gardener, with sections on the marine aquarium, the fresh-water aquarium, the Wardian case (miniature greenhouse), the Waltonian case (hot-house for the drawing-room), floral ornaments for the table and window, the aviary, the apiary, the pleasure garden, the flower garden, the garden aquarium and water scenery, the rockery and wilderness, the fernery, and garden furniture and ornaments. Freeman 1664. Nissen 875.