A Treatise on the Culture of Flowers 1792
A Treatise on the Culture of Flowers 1792
The Florist's Directory; Or a Treatise on the Culture of Flowers: To Which is Added a Supplementary Dissertation on Soils, Manures, &c. By James Maddock. Florist at Walworth, Near London. London: Printed for the Author; & Sold by B. White & Sons., MDCCXCII (1792).
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Illustrated with 5 beautiful coloured plates, all pictured.
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Size: 138 x 215 mm (approx.)
Condition:
[(1), t.p., i-vii, 272pp., (1)]
Half brown calf over marbled paper backed boards with a black tooled label to the spine. Gilt bands on spine and tooled label dulled. Binding lightly rubbed and scuffed with a few marks. Marble paper on boards dulled. Small wormholing near joints. Shelf and edge wear. Page edges dulled. Pencil inscriptions to front pastedown. Text block very clean with lightly toned with occasional foxing. Very light edge toning as commensurate with the leather binding.