Howells, J. Trouble Free Clematis. The Viticellas.
1st. Ed. Pub. Garden Art Press. 1998 pp.191 with col. photos. and drawings throughout. 4to. Fine hardback in fine dw.
A valuable, practical, guide and the most comprehensive book to date on the subject of Viticellas.
£25.00 [ref: 66625]

Hulme, F. Edward. and Hibberd, Shirley. Familiar Garden Flowers. Vol. I to IV.
Pub. The Waverley Book Co. Ltd. [c.1910] Four volumes with 40 col. plates & b/w. vignettes to each vol. 8vo. Hardbacks. Charming bookplates and more recent small address label to each front paste downs. Light spotting to fore-edges of text blocks and occ. internally o/w. contents fine. Original cloth boards lightly rubbed to extremities o/w. in thor. vg. condition.
A fascinating insight into garden flowers of the period. Very well illustrated with insightful text talking both about the flowers and their cultivation and also what was happening culturally at the time. An example being for Lavender ‘Large quantities of lavender flowers are sent to Covent Garden annually, and from thence find their way to the shops and costers’ barrows, for there is still a demand for them filling muslin bags to stow away in drawers and cupboards’.
£200.00 [ref: 72022]

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Hunt, P. (Ed.). The Book of Garden Ornament.
Pub. J.M. Dent. 1974 pp.xxi, 298 with b/w. photographs throughout. Some foxing to rear turn-in of dw. otherwise a vg. copy.
£40.00 [ref: 42767]

Hurst, K. Herbs and the Kitchen Garden.
1st. Ed. Pub. Parragon. 1997 pp.63 with colour photos. throughout. Small 8vo. Fine hardback.
Covers a wide range of herbs as well as advising on growing vegetables and drying flowers and herbs.
£4.50 [ref: 61065]

Hyams, Edward. An Englishman’s Garden.
1st. Ed. Pub. Thames and Hudson. 1967 pp.139 with b/w. photos. 8vo. Softback. Proof copy. Affectionate inscription to half-title. Spotting to fore-edges of text block, title pages and occ. internally o/w. contents fine. Card covers thor. vg. with some darkening to spine.
The story of how the author and his wife turned a three acre ruined and neglected garden in Devonshire into ‘something worth looking at’.
£10.00 [ref: 71349]

Ingold, Prof. T. (et al). David Nash. A Natural Gallery.
1st. Ed. Pub. Kew. 2013 pp.192 with colour photos throughout. 4to. New hardback in new dw. RRP £40.00.
Chronicles David Nash’s year long residency at Kew Gardens when he worked with trees at the end of their lives. Stunning colour photography and insightful text documents his sculptures progress against a changing seasonal background - an excellent showcase for this new work.
£30.00 [ref: 60480]

Ingwersen, W. Alpines.
1st. Ed. Pub. John Murray. 1991 pp.x, 292 with col. photos. throughout. 4to. Spotting to top edge o/w. a fine hardback in thor. vg. dw. Out of print.
this volume perfectly complements the author’s ‘Manual of Alpine Plants’, now the stsndard reference on the subject. Very well illustrated with colour photographs.
£10.00 [ref: 53766]

Innes, M. & Perry, C. Medieval Flowers.
1st. Ed. Pub. Kyle Cathie Ltd. 1997 pp.160 with colour photos throughout. 4to. Fine hardback in nr. fine dw.
Examines the types of medieval garden (physic, kitchen, pleasure and walled) and their characteristic plants, with details of medicinal properties and advice on growing.
£7.50 [ref: 65001]

Irving, Walter & Malby, Reginald A. Saxifrages or Rockfoils. The Rock Gardener’s Library.
1st. Ed. Pub. Headley Brothers. [c.1913] pp.xii, 147 with colour frontis and b/w. photos. Large 8vo. Hardback. Some spotting o/w. contents fine. Original gilt lettered red cloth in fine condition. With the 4-page pre-publication publicity leaflet for this work loosely inserted - copies would be ordered direct from R.A. Malby. Also with Reginald Malby’s business card loosely inserted with a handwritten note reading “From Miss Willmott!” - most likely Miss Ellen Ann Willmott the English horticulturist and highly influential member of the Royal Horticultural Society. Prov: Spetchley Park, Worcestershire. A unique copy.
Reginald A. Malby, was one of the finest horticultural photographers of his era and both he and Walter Irving were rock garden experts. Malby’s business card is hugely charming and his occupation reads ‘Technical and Horticultural Photographer, Lanternist, Etc’. This work contains a chapter on the ‘Saxifrages of the Pyrenees’ by John H. Salter.
£120.00 [ref: 61272]

Itoh, T. Imperial Gardens of Japan.
1st. Ed. 4th. Imp. Pub. Weatherhill. 1981 pp.290 with colour photographs throughout. Folio. Fine hardback in fine dw.
A stunning work. With 210 pages of photographs, 138 in colour.
£50.00 [ref: 44200]