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 calender of gardening operations. Pub. Blackie. [c.1859]
pp.xv, 774 with hand-tinted colour frontis., plus 5 further hand-tinted colour plates. Many b/w. illus through text. Royal 8vo. Hardback. Scattered foxing to endpapers, small light mark to top edge of plates o/w. contents fine. All edges marbled. Original half leather binding with raised bands to spine, rubbed, more so to extremities, o/w. vg.
£100.00 [Ref: 56086]