Various ed by william robinson (1 Ergebnisse)

Cloth. Zustand: Good. Two charming volumes within the scarce horticultural magazine offering the latest insights and news in gardening, with numerous colour lithographs. Volumes XXXI and XXXVIII in the very scarce The Garden: An Illustrated Weekly Journal of Horticulture In All Its Branches, edited by pioneering Irish gardener and horticultural journalist William Robinson. Published from January-July 1887 and July-December 1890. The first volume published in 1871. In the publisher's original green cloth, with original end papers preserved. Volume XXXVIII bound without title leaf or index leaves. Both volumes contain numerous in-text illustrations, with Volume XXXI also containing a monochrome frontispiece of John McHutcheon, and twenty-nine colour lithographs, with a missing plate adjoining p.212, and Volume XXXVIII containing twenty-one colour lithographs. Offering gardening advice and tips as well as insightful horticultural articles, Robinson's journal is a brilliant guide for any avid gardener wishing to master their craft. The journal was also brilliant as a medium for exchanging horticultural ideas, and included contributing writers from John Ruskin to Gertrude Jekyll. In the publisher's original green cloth, with original end papers preserved. Volume XXXVIII bound without title leaf or index leaves.Externally, marks to boards, and fading to board extremities. Slight fading to XXXI spine and faint rubbing to joints. Slight bumping to the heads and tails of the spines, and to the extremities. Small lifts to cloth to edges of XXXI, with minor loss to XXXI spine head. Offsetting to free end papers, and heavy creases to XXXI free end papers and blanks. Internally, firmly bound. Plate adjoining p.212 missing from XXXI. Pages are mostly bright and clean, with the rare faint spot to XXXI leaves. Good. Unknown (illustrator). book.…