The New And Improved Practical Gardener, And Modern Horticulturist;.
Bound in recent half black morocco over original cloth; spine with gilt lining, date to base and contrasting maroon label, gilt. Occasional foxing but otherwise a very good copy.
£300.00
Publisher
Thomas Kelly, Paternoster Row.,
Place
London
Date
1841
Synopsis
Exhibiting the latest and most approved management of kitchen, fruit, and flower gardens, the green-house, hot-house, conservatory, &c. &c. for every month in the year. enriched with numerous wood-cuts and |illustrations. with an appendix on the new tank system of producing bottom heat, etc.
Item Description
4to. iv + 972 pp. + engraved portrait frontispiece and 10 hand-coloured plates with numerous wood-engravings to the text.
Illustrations
Illustrated by 10 hand coloured plates and numerous wood engravings in text. This copy lacks portrait frontispiece.
Notes
Ten exquisitely hand-coloured plates, drawn by J. Webbe and W.T. Webb and engraved by W. A. Beever, depict forty flowering plants and shrubs. Illustrated with wood cuts of equipment, garden layouts and plans and elevations of green-, hot-, and forcing-houses, showing their arrangement and construction. Contains comprehensive lists of recommended vegetable and fruit varieties, useful for the garden historian. The horticulturist, Charles M'Intosh (1794-1864) had a distinguished career working for aristocratic estate owners and European royalty such as the King of the Belgians, with consequently, generous funding for his gardening projects. This title was one of the most popular of M'Intosh's works, first appearing as The Practical Gardener and Modern Horticulturist in two volumes, 1828-29, with new editions appearing until 1855.
[Stock No. 22211]
Subjects
19th Century • Encyclopaedias • Gardening • Horticulture • Natural History