Madoc Books

Book Condition: Very Good
Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾ tall
Jacket Condition:
Binding: Cloth
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Edition: First Edition
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2 Volumes. Refurbished by Paul Delrue in Green Cloth bindings, repairs and tidy-up, leather labels, new endpapers, rounding and backing, headbands etc. Title in real gold with lines (hand lettered) with the date at the foot. Volume 1 (1828) = 554 pp, B&W frontis, illustrated title page, 2nd titlepage, 5 full page coloured plates, numerous woodcuts. Volume 2 (1829) = 555-1122 + 138 pp dedicated to the General Management of the Stove Department and Nursery and Planting + a page of Directions to the Binder and 1 page of adverts, titlepage, and 17 fullpage B&W plates as well as 10 coloured full size plates, missing the strawberry plate. Some minor browning throughout. Full title is The Practical Gardener, and Modern Horticuturist; containing the latest and most appoved methods for the management of the kitchen, fruit and flower garden, the green house, hot house etc etc for every month of the year; each department being distinctly and separately arranged; illustrated by numerous designs of the most eligible plans for the formation of Kitchen and Pleasure Gardens, the erection of hot houses, hot beds, green houses, conservatories, walls, fences, etc including the New Method of Heating Forcing-Houses with Hot Water Only; forming a complete system of modern practice, in the various branches of Horticultural Science. Embellished with highly finished engravings of some of the most choice and valuable fruits and flowers now cultivated in this country. By Charles McIntosh CMCHS Late Gardener to the Right Honorable the Earl of Braedalbane, and Sir Thomas Baring.... A rare opportunity to acquire a first edition of this unique book.