The Gardener's London: Four Centuries of Gardening, Gardeners and Garden Usage.
by Dawn MacLeod
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- VG+/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0715606433
- ISBN 13
- 9780715606438
- Seller
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Bluffton, South Carolina, United States
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About This Item
London: Duckworth, 1972. 1st Edition . Hardcover. VG+/Very Good. 1st edition [First published in 1972], 8o, olive green cloth, 336 pages, b/w decorative headpieces to each chapter, b/w plates of photographs and illustrations throughout, booklist, index. Condition: VERY GOOD+ book / VERY GOOD jacket: book has slight rubbing to edges and corners; jacket has light edgewear along top edge, ¼" closed tear at spine tail, small scratch on spine. "The aim of this engagingly discursive book is to show how large a contribution to the art and craft of gardening has been made through the past four centuries, by London - 'the flower of cities all.'" Covers Royal gardens, physic and botanical gardens, writers' gardens, market gardens, parks and pleasure gardens, smaller gardens and horticultural societies.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bygone Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 17868
- Title
- The Gardener's London: Four Centuries of Gardening, Gardeners and Garden Usage.
- Author
- Dawn MacLeod
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG+
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0715606433
- ISBN 13
- 9780715606438
- Publisher
- Duckworth
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1972
- Keywords
- GARDENING, HORTICULTURE, LONDON, GREAT BRITAIN
- Bookseller catalogs
- Great Britain; Gardening / Horticulture;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Bygone Books
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Bluffton, South Carolina
About Bygone Books
A closed shop of fine used and collectible books with specialties in Literature, Children's, Domestic Arts, Decorative Arts, and Great Britain.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.