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    By Sir Herbert Maxwell
    Glasgow   Maclehose, Jackson & Co.
    10.5"b y 8" xv [1], 249 [1] pp.
    A smart first edition copy of this practical and charming guide to cultivating the finest flowers, enriched with the author’s own colour illustrations.
    By Sir Herbert Maxwell

    1923 Flowers: A Garden Note Book With Suggestions for Growing the Choicest Kinds

    Glasgow   Maclehose, Jackson & Co.
    10.5"b y 8" xv [1], 249 [1] pp.
    A smart first edition copy of this practical and charming guide to cultivating the finest flowers, enriched with the author’s own colour illustrations.
    £35.00
    : 1kgs / : 978H15
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    Description

    Colour Plates, First Edition, Illustrated, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding

    In the publisher's original brown cloth binding.

    This volume is a first edition. 

    Illustrated with 12 colour plates, including a frontispiece, drawn by MAxwell. Collated, complete.

    The volume offers guidance on equipment, choosing good varieties, growing and maintaining the “choicest kinds” of flowers. With chapters on like "Some Hardy Bulbs," "The Herbaceous Border," "Flowering Shrubs," "Rhododendrons," "Wild Gardening," "Rockwork and Edgings," "Some Weeds," "Some Failures," among others.

    Sir Herbert Eustace Maxwell, 7th Baronet (1845-1937), was a Scottish author, horticulturalist, antiquarian and Conservative politician.

    Condition

    In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, smart. Slight damp staining to front board with scattered spotting to perimeters of boards. The odd slight handling mark to boards and spine with the odd slight scratch. Slight offsetting to endpapers. Article affixed with tape to front free paste down. Previous owner's contemporary inscription to front free endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean with slight age toning with one or two spots to fore edge.

    Good

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