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PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

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PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

HRD. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

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New edition. Revised & improved edition, 1860, in blind-stamped khaki cloth with gilt. Lacks front free end paper & half-title; damage to front pastedown where label removed; title page a little yellowed; text generally clean. Cloth on spine browned, with wear at head & foot Used - Acceptable. Fair hardback Used - Acceptable. Fair hardback.

Cloth. Zustand: Good. None (illustrator). The twenty-fourth edition of this gardener's calendar from horticulturalists Thomas Mawe and John Abercrombie. Twenty-fourth edition. With a frontispiece and one plate. A gardener's calendar and general directory containing directions for all work necessary in the garden. With practical directions for raising, propagating, and forcing, as well as observations on soils and situations. Includes an added complete systematic catalogue of plants for the kitchen garden, orchard, hot-beds, flower garden, shrubbery, green house, and more. Written by Thomas Mawe and John Abercrombie, Scottish horticulturists important to renovating garden techniques. With great improvements by James Main, a Scottish botanist who began his working life as a gardener. In the original full cloth binding. Externally, sound with light rubbing and bumping to the extremities. Fading to the spine with marks to the boards, including ink marks. Splits in the cloth to the head and tail of the spine and the rear joint. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright with light spotting to the foredge. Minor age toning to the endpapers. Good. book.

Cloth. Zustand: Good. 23rd. Original green cloth which ia marked and lacks title label, 688pp, the 23rd edition with improvements by James Main, directions for all work necessary for every month of the year, with practical directions for raising, propagating and forcing, and with a complete systematic catalogue of plants proper for cultivation in British Gardens, Previous owners card attached to front pastedown, page edges browned, binding tight.

21st ed. Owner's name on title page (dated 1830); some foxing; spine joints cracked but tight; leather on spine scuffed & slightly cracked; lacks spine title label. With frontis portrait of John Abercrombie Used - Good. Good hardback in full leather.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Seventh Edition. Clean hardback tightly bound in full brown leather with gilt titles to red spine panel, 5 raised bands, spine is a recent professional replacement, original frontispiece missing, contemporary engravings pasted down to front & rear pastedowns of new endpapers, some browning to page edges, 2 pencilled drawings and a name to the rear blank endpapers (could be erased if thought necessary), inked note (dated 1807) in margin of page 313, otherwise no inscriptions. ii + 498 pages, index. A sound & very attractive copy of this much-reprinted gardening classic.

Half Leather. Zustand: Good. First Edition. [FIRST EDITION, BUT LACKING ONE PAGE.] Small octavo, pp 422 + one page bookseller's catalogue. The title page is mounted, lacking a few small pieces around the margins; the preface page is a bit worn, with a torn corner; otherwise contents generally a little used and dog-eared, some staining and marking of which the worst is pages 190/191 (see illustration); LACKING page 1/2, otherwise complete, tight and sound; bound in a fairly recent half calf and marbled boards, raised bands and title label. [Blanche Henrey 1052. The true, rare, first edition. There were two printings in 1767, with differences in pagination - this is the first, ].

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Revised and Enlarged Edition. Octavo; 658, 10 pages of Index, leaf 527/528 tear repaired with archival tape; new quarter sheep, marbled boards, new endpapers. [ See Sowerby 803 for the 1767 edition ]. Thomas Mawe was the gardener to the Duke of Leeds. John Abercrombie was a gardener, a vegetarian, and a prolific writer about gardens. Abercrombie had worked in the Kew Gardens, and for successive wealthy patrons. The first edition of this work appeared in 1767, and, tho written by Abercrombie, gave credit to Mawe, who only endorsed it. With five engraved plates, including a portrait frontispiece of Abercrombie standing in a garden holding a spade. This 19th century edition was enlarged and improved by Richard Forsyth.

Brown hardback cloth cover. Zustand: Very Good. Eighth Edition. VG : in very good condition. Rebound with new eps. Some occasional light browning. 180mm x 110mm (7" x 4"). ii, 486pp, + index. Frontis engraving.

12mo, pp.[4], 404, xi, [1], with an engraved frontispiece by Isaac Taylor; occasional soiling; an honest copy in contemporary plain calf, covers tooled by an amateur with a compass, the numbers 110 scraped into leather at head of front cover, rear cover stained with the initials TH, later brown pastedowns, remnant of spine label; worn, particularly at spine, with spine and textblock split, joints cracked (but hinges repaired), remnants of adhesive to spine and adjacent parts of covers; ownership inscriptions of William Chartres (1799 and 1801) and Thomas Houghton (1805 and 1808, see below), stamp of George Houghton to first text leaf, later inscriptions of John Houghton, Nursery-man (with a note of his birth at Putney Park in 1819) and of William Cooper (1877), manuscript note to p. 71.Second edition, published in the same year as the first, of an immensely popular work, which went through at least twenty-five editions; this copy with interesting horticultural provenance and an amateur-tooled binding.'Abercrombie was the son of a market gardener near Edinburgh who went on to be a gardener at Kew and Leicester House, as well as for a number of noblemen and gentlemen. Despite the title page, he is generally regarded as the sole author of this popular gardening manual, which originally appeared with Mawe, the gardener to the Duke of Leeds, listed as the author because of that worthy's greater reputation' (Johnston). The present copy was owned by one 'William Chartres' and used by him to record his employment as gardener to 'Lord Elcho [i.e.Francis Charteris was there a family connection?], South Warnbro Castle, Hampshire' in 1799, and subsequently to Sir John Eamer at Putney Heath in 1801. Eamer (17501823), an eminent grocer in the sugar trade, was Lord Mayor of London in 1801. His house at Putney Heath, known as Bowling Green House, was leased to the former Prime Minister William Pitt in 1804. The book then seems to have passed to Thomas Houghton, who records his service to Rev.Primatt Knapp of Shenley, starting 21 June 1805; and William Garrett of Leigh House, Hampshire, on 29 March 1808. Leigh House had been substantially remodelled by Garrett, and 'The gardens are planned with great judgement, and furnished with pinery, hot-house, green-houses and stoves, and surrounded with shrubberies and walks communicating in all directions' (Butler, Topographical Account of the Hundred of Bosmere, 1817). Thomas Houghton and his son John were later gardeners to Queely Shiell of Granard Lodge, Putney, and would be key witnesses in the case of the murder of Jane Jones by the coachman Daniel Good in 1842. One of these owners, or perhaps one of their children, seems to have decorated the calf of the covers with household tools, including a compass, and scraped the numerals 110 onto the front cover. ESTC T119527 (listing seven copies in British institutions, five in North America, and one in New Zealand); Henrey 1053; see Johnston, The Cleveland Herbal, Botanical, and Horticultural Collections, p.515. Language: English.

Full leather. John Abercrombie (actual author) (illustrator). 1st edition. 1st ed., 12mo., pp. (iv), (1)-84, 73-412, 415-422, (ii, adverts), [pagination as in most first edition copies], pages tanned with some markings and light staining, corners a little dog eared, some creasing, chipping, contemporary annotations in ink to margins of few pages. Fine binding by Cottage Bindery in full 'Baskerville' style leather binding, ornate double line gilt ruled borders with floral corner pieces, gilt spine, raised bands, fine gilt tooling within the compartments and gilt title to leather spine label. A good copy of this rare first edition in a handsome binding. The first edition of 1767. A popular gardening text of the 18th century with chapters divided into months of the year. Thomas Mawe, 'the gardener to the Duke of Leeds', was not the author. John Abercrombie, who was the author, was a Scottish horticulturist and one of the most prolific gardening writers of the period. Abercrombie's name did not appear as author until the 7th edition of 1776.

pp. (ii) Title, ii Preface, 486, (xii) Index, (ii) blank. Engraved frontispiece. Full period calf, sometime rebacked, the spine ends worn with slight loss at the foot, top corners repaired, joints intact, text very good.