[Hey, Rebecca]. The Moral of Flowers.
1st. Ed. Pub. Longman et al. 1833 pp.xi, 179 with 24 fine hand-coloured, copper engraved plates. 8vo. Hardback. TEG. Neat inscription, dated May 1834, to ffep. Occasional, minor spotting and off-setting, occasional informed pencil notes o/w. contents fine. More recently sympathetically bound in quarter leather over beige boards, with gilt decoration and raised bands to spine, all in fine condition.
The plates feature fine botanical illustrations by William Clark ‘formerly draughtsman and engraver to the London Horticutural Society; sufficient guarantee, it is presumed, for the excellence of their execution.’.
£825.00 [ref: 60731]

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[Hill, Francis]. Adam’s Luxury, and Eve’s Cookery. or, the Kitchen-Garden display’d. In Two Parts.
1st. Facs. Ed. Pub. Prospect Books. 1983 pp.xii, 216. Small 8vo. TEG. Fine hardback.
‘In 1744 was published ‘Adam’s Luxury, and Eve’s cookery’, a little treatise which, according to the introduction was ‘chiefly design’d for the instruction and benefit of country people, who most of them have a little garden spot belonging to their house, and at the same time let it lie useless, for want of knowing how to properly manage it’. The rarity of this excellent little book, which gives practical information on kitchen gardening followed by a collection of cooking receipts, may be due to most copies being worn out through constant use, not only by the family gardener but also by the cook.’ (Henrey).
£17.50 [ref: 65436]

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[Loudon, John Claudius]. The Green-House Companion; Comprising a General Course of Green-House and Conservatory Practice throughout the Year.
2nd. Ed. Pub. Harding, Triphook, and Lepard. 1825 pp.xii, 204 with hand-coloured frontis., and 7 b/w. figs. 8vo. Hardback. Only occ. very light spotting and one pencil annotation o/w. contents fine. More recently rebound in burgundy half calf and marbled boards very gently sunned on spine, o/w. in fine condition.
Presents ‘A natural arrangement of all green-house plants in cultivation; with a descriptive catalogue of the most desirable to form a collection, their proper soils, modes of propagation, management, and references to botanical works in which they are figured. Also, the proper treatment of flowers in rooms, and bulbs in water glasses.’.
£175.00 [ref: 64268]

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[McIntosh, C.]. The Flower Garden: Containing Directions for the Cultivation of all Garden Flowers; with selected lists of the most approved annual and perennial flowering plants.
New Ed. Pub. Wm.S. Orr. 1839 pp.[vi], iv, [ii], 515 with hand-col. frontis., hand-col. title-page vignette and nine further hand-col. plates, eight b/w. plates plus numerous b/w. vignettes & illus. 8vo. Hardback. AEG. Internal hinges tender. Some marking to endpapers, very occ. light spotting and the occ. pencil mark o/w. contents fine. Original cloth boards with gilt decoration and lettering to spine in good to vg. condition.
McIntosh was described as being “well-known amongst gardeners, a practical botanist, a skilful cultivator and of considerable taste in laying out grounds”.
£150.00 [ref: 71364]

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[Montolieu, Maria Henrietta]. The Enchanted Plants, Fables in Verse.
1st. Ed. Pub. Thomas Bensley. 1800 pp.93. 8vo. 8vo. Hardback. Amorial bookplate to front pastedown. Contents fine. More recently sympathetically rebound with new end papers, all in fine condition.
A charming anthology of plant poems on a variety of emotions and topics - Grumbling, Folly, Love, Ingratitude, Wonder etc., inscribed to her two daughters.
£200.00 [ref: 60776]

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[Philp, R.K.]. The Gardener’s and Farmer’s Reason Why. Containing reasons for the principles of scientific cultivation applicable to gardening and agriculture.
1st. Ed. Pub. Houlston and Wright. 1860 pp.xix, 330 with text illus. 8vo. Hardback. With period bookplate of Francis T. Havergal to front pastedown. A little spotting, cords a little stretched o/w. contents fine. Original decorated cloth boards with gilt motif in vg. condition.
Robert Kemp Philp (1819–1882) was an English journalist, author, publisher and Chartist. This book is one of the ‘Reason Why’ series he published and takes the form of a series of questions and answers on the subject of gardening and farming.
£15.00 [ref: 70023]

[Tyas, Robert.] Popular Flowers: Their Cultivation, Propagation, and General Treatment in all Seasons.
1st. Ed. Pub. R. Tyas & Houlston & Stoneman. 1843-1844 Two volume set with hand-coloured double page frontis. to Vol. II plus 22 further hand-coloured plates. Small 8vos. Hardbacks. TEG. Two period signatures. Contents fine. Original gilt decorated cloth boards in vg. plus condition.
£250.00 [ref: 60791]

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[Worlidge, John]. The Gardeners Monthly Directions. Shewing What is Necessary to be done throughout the Year in Sowing, Planting and Propagating, the most valuable of the Shrubs, Flowers, Esculents, and other Hortensian Plants before Treated of. And What Ornamental Trees and Flowers, are in their Prime in each Month.
Fac. Ed. Pub. Clark Constable Ltd. 1980 pp.viii, 21. 8vo. Nr. fine softback with just a little silverfish wear to the top corner margin of the first and last few pages.
A facsimile of the 1688 edition from the library of Traquair House Innerleithen, Peebleshire.
£9.50 [ref: 59829]

‘H.W.’ Facts about Flowers. Illustrated by twelve plates in water colours, faithful drawings from Nature.
Pub. Church Education Soc. 1871 pp.iii, 55 with 12 colour chromolithograph plates plus 24 pages of adverts. Large 8vo. Hardback. AEG. Signature. Some off-settting from plates, o/w. contents fine. Original decorated brown cloth boards with illustrated polychrome medallion to front board, all in vg. condition.
Presented as a dialogue between a father, Mr. Ernest, and his son, Harry.
£40.00 [ref: 60782]

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