1859 Gardening BEAUTIFUL Color Illustrated Plant Botany Flowers Fruit ART Garden

1859 Gardening BEAUTIFUL Color Illustrated Plant Botany Flowers Fruit ART Garden

Robert Thompson’s “Gardener’s Assistant” is an impressive 19^th-century gardener’s manual. Certainly, numerous other similar works exist; however, there is no other edition that is more desirable than this. Beautifully leather-bound with exquisite, marbled boards, this work features full-page color engravings of fruits, flowers, and plants, as well as countless in-text wood engravings throughout.

While the illustrations in this book make it highly desirable and valuable, this work includes articles on all aspects of gardening: planting tips and tricks, parts of the plant, fruits and vegetables, gardening calendar and schedules, and much, much more!

Item number: #26492

Price: $499

THOMPSON, Robert

The gardener’s assistant practical and scientific. A guide to the formation and management of the kitchen, fruit, and flower garden, and the cultivation of conservatory, green-house, and stove plants. With a copious calendar of gardening operations

London: Blackie & Son, [ca.1859]. 1^st edition

Details:

• Collation: Complete with all pages
  • xv, [1], 774
  • 12 color plates, plus 268 woodcut engravings throughout
• Language: English
• Binding: Leather; tight and secure
• Size: ~10in X 7.25in (25.5cm x 18.5cm)

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