Anthony, J. Joseph Paxton. An Illustrated Life of Sir Joseph Paxton 1803-1865.
1st. Ed. Pub. Shire. 1973 pp.48 with b/w. photos. 8vo. Softback. Complete but disbound. VG.
Although best known as the designer of the Crystal Palace, Paxton had an incredibly varied career, including becoming head-gardener to the sixth Duke of Devonshire at Chatsworth at the age of only twenty three.
£3.00 [ref: 58582]
Armitage, A.M. Armitage’s Garden Perennials. A Colour Encyclopedia.
Pub. Timber Press. 2000 pp.323 with colour photographs throughout. A vg. copy in same dw.
£12.00 [ref: 40759]
Bacon, L. Alpines.
Pub. Garden Book Club. 1973 pp.246 with a few b/w. photographs. A very good copy in same dw.
£4.00 [ref: 42680]
Bagust, H. The Gardener’s Dictionary of Horticultural Terms.
Pub. Cassell. 1992 pp.377 informative line drawings throughout. A nr. fine copy in same dw.
A very useful book with over 2,900 entries and 1,200 explanatory diagrams.
£8.00 [ref: 41273]
Bailey, L.H. Hortus Source list. Winter 1992
Pub. L.H. Bailey Hortorium. 1992 pp.xiv, 229 VG. in ring binder.
£10.00 [ref: 42121]
Barker, J. et.al. Everlasting Daisies of Australia. Identification, Propagation, Cultivation.
1st. Ed. Pub. C.H. Jerram & Assoc. 2002 pp.xii, 196 with colour photos., throughout. Large 8vo. Bookplate. Nr. fine softback. Out-of-print. Very scarce.
The result of five years of work by the Australian Daisy Study Group, this book covers all of the species in twelve genera of everlasting daisies. There are chapters on growing everlasting daisies, propagation, floral arrangements, floriculture, reproduction and hybridisation.
£65.00 [ref: 56250]
Barker, J.T. The Beauty of Flowers in Field and Wood: Containing the Natural Orders or Families of British Wild Plants; with their Moral Teachings Illustrated.
1st. Ed. Pub. Binns & Goodwin. [n.d. c.1852] pp.xii, 228 with 10 hand-coloured plates plus 20 page publisher’s catalogue. With additional illustrated title-page. 8vo. Hardback. AEG. Period signature. Contents fine. Original gilt and blind decorated cloth binding thor. vg. / nr. fine. Scarce.
“Designed to make botany simple, and field and wood rambles instructive and agreeable.”
£225.00 [ref: 60773]
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Barnard, T. and Clark, J. (Eds.). Lord Burlington: Architecture, Art and Life.
1st. Ed. Pub. The Hambledon Press. 1995 pp.xviii, 328 with b/w. illus. 4to. Fine hardback with a little light spotting to endpapers in nr. fine dw.
A biography of Burlington, architect and patron of the arts with particular attention to his achievement at Chiswick House.
£22.50 [ref: 63376]
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Bartlett, Mary. Gentians.
New. Rev. Ed. Pub. Alphabooks. 1981 pp.144 with colour and b/w. photos. and illus. 8vo. A nr. fine hdbk. in nr. fine dw.
£2.50 [ref: 50853]