THE BOOK OF THE POTATO by Sanders, T. W - 1905

London: W. H. & L. Collingridge, 1905. Title page dated 1905; pp. xi, [1], 222, plus 6 & 4 pages of adverts; b/w portrait frontispiece after a photograph, b/w illustrations throughout featuring numerous potato varieites and cultivation and storage methods. Bound in the publisher's grey cloth with black lettering and vignette of a potatoes to the front board, cloth lightly marked and a little general wear. Contents clean and tight, orginal end papers, no inscriptions. A very good coy of this scarce title. Title continues: 'A practical treatise on the history propagation and cultivation of the potato in garden and field for home consumption market and exhibition together with special chapters on the soils and manures adapted for its successful culture'. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo. Book.