Search Results: Gardening from David Ford Books

London: Allen Lane 1983 Hardcover book , first edition in dustjacket. 248pp, colour photographic plates by Pamela Toler. Lloyd's classic book on gardening. Dust jacket has very light tanning to rear. A Fine copy in a Fine unclipped dustjacket., pictures available.

London, W.H. and L. Collingridge Ltd, 1958 Hardcover book in dustjacket. . Gardening around the year by this well-known garden writer. Colour frontis. Illustrated in black & white. A near Fine book in a near Fine dustjacket with a sunned anddarkened spine. Pictures available.

London: Collins, 1967 First edition. Signed by the author on title page (just signature). Hardcover book . Orange cloth with gilt title to spine and decorative gilt motif to front; no dustjacket. 239pp, quarto. Book attractively designed by George Rainbird. With 73 colour plates, and line drawings in text by William McClaren, who also did the pictorial endpapers. Uses many examples of flowers and floral motifs in both western and oriental art over the centuries, as well as modern flower arrangers. Very Good. A slight dent and bump to front board. Pictures available.

London: Ward, Lock & Co, 1933 New edition, completely re-written, revised and extended. Undated but post-1896 from contents, probably c.1900. Hardcover book . Green cloth, with gilt titles to spiner, and gilt rose vignette to front. 731pp, plus pictorial trade adverts front and back; octavo. With 6 chromo-lithograph plates, including frontispiece, with titled tissue-guards, and over 500 engraved b&w illustrations and figures in text. Includes a large section at abck: Monthly Calendar of Garden Work.Very Good overall. Covers bright, with a few light marks and spots, and rubbing to edges with nicks to cloth. Binding sound, though one of the trade advert leaves at front is detached (present): these are on browned brittle paper (unlike the main contents). Page faces clean, though there is intermittent foxing, mostly to margins and mostly light. Browning and some foxing to closed edges. Two names to verso of frontis. . Pictures available.

London: John Lane The Bodley Head Ltd 1923 Handbooks of Practical Gardening - XIX. Edited by Harry Roberts. Hardcover book , reprint, xi, 105pp, 23 illustrations. Decorative green cloth boards, minor wear to edges, some spotting to page edges. Dust jacket has stain to rear, some light tanning and spotting to spine. A Very Good+ copy in a Very Good dust jacket. Pictures available.

London: Baldwin, Cradock & Joy, undated. An early or perhaps first edition, although undated (was first published in the 1820s). Hardcover book . Quarter Leather, marbled paper covered boards; marbled endpapers and edges. Decorative engraved title page. Unpaginated, but consists of beautiful hand coloured engravings of 96 cultivated/garden plants in 24 plates, with text about each plant on following pages, and short Preface. Details of origin worldwide and the date of first introduction to Britain are given. The plates have wide margins. Note this is Volume 1 only. Full title: The Botanic Garden; consisting of Highly Finished Representations of Hardy Ornamental Flowering Plants, Cultivated in Great Britain; with their Classification, History , Culture and other Interesting Information. Pages are very good, the plates bright and clean, most pages clean, some foxing to a few and a few marks. Covers only attached by the back board/hinge, the front endpaper and adjoining sheet are detached; the… Read More

London: Macmillan 2002 2 volume set. Hardcover book x 2 , 1st Edition, 2nd impression., 22.5x29cms. Vol 1 - Trees and Shrubs, 491pp. Vol 2 - Perennials and Annuals, 539pp. Both volumes with colour illustrations to every page. Gift inscription to vol 1 . A Fine set in Fine dustjackets and with a near fine slipcase. No inscription and not price clipped. Pictures available. Please note this is a very heavy set and may require extra postage,

London: Fourth Estate, 1987 First edition. Hardcover book . Handsome binding by A.W. Lumsden of Edinburgh in half-leather: green morocco spines and corners, over green marbled paper boards, with gilt title to spine, and gilt top page edges. Green endpapers. Unpaginated, 30 x 22 cm. Printed on cream paper by the Stellar Press, Hatfield. With 35 beautifully painted plates of apple varieties by Caroline Todhunter, with line drawing and text opposite each plate. The text describes the apple variety, its history, and gives information on its flavour and the type of cider it makes. Introduction by David Bulmer. A Very Good+ copy. Slight sunning to spine leather. Firmly bound pages, no inscriptions, clean bright plates with some very light foxing to prelims and blank leaves in centre; a few leaves in centre have very small impression marks. Pictures available.

Woodbridge: Antique Collectors' Club, 1984 Reprint of 1908 edition. Hardcover book . Olive-green cloth, gilt title to spine and front, and colour-pictorial dustjacket. 189pp. Very well illustrated throughout with 106 illustrations by Gertrude Jekyll: including 6 colour reproductions of her watercolours, as well as many b&w photos of children and her cat Tabby in the garden, and line drawings and some garden design drawings. This copy came from the collection of Miranda Villiers who was related to Gertude Jekyll.( ownership not stated) Very Good condition: bright and clean aprt from occasional pencil underlining of passages in text. Photos available. Other titles by Jekyll in this series of reprints also listed. Pictures available.

London: HMSO, 1993. First edition A life of Ernest H. Wilson, 1876-1930. The story of this plant collector and 2 of his expeditions into China which resulted in 65,000 specimens alone. Foreword by Roy Lancaster. Hardcover book , First edition , xiii, 154pp, with b/w and colour photographs throughout. 19.5 x 25.4cms. Dust Jacket price clipped. A Fine copy and DJ. No inscriptions and not price clipped. Pictures available.

London, Francis Lincoln ,1999 Hardcover book with dustjacket. First Edition 224 pages. Illustrated in colour with photographs by Jonathan Buckley. Writings concerning his garden at Great Dixter month by month Very Good in Fine dustjacket. No inscriptions, Not price clipped. Spotting to top closed page edges. Pictures available.

London: Phoenix House, 1967 Second impression of title first published in 1965. Hardcover book . Green cloth with gilt titles, and pictorial dustjacket. 203pp. With 8 colour plates painted by the author, 8 drawings by the author in plates, and 16 b&w photos, as well as line diagrams in text. A Fine book (with light tanning to top closed page edges), in Very Good price-clipped jacket, which has very light rubbing toi edges. Pictures available.

Woodbridge: Antique Collectors' Club, 1987 Reprint of 1936 edition, with colour illustrations added. Hardcover book . Olive-green cloth, gilt title to spine and front, and colour-photo illustrated dustjacket. 326pp. Very well Illustrated throughout with over 30 colour photos, many b&w photos and garden design drawings by Jekyll. Although not signed this copy has the bookplate of Miranda Villiers inside front cover- she was related to Gertude Jekyll. Very Good condition overall. Very light spotting to top page edges, a couple of lines of text underlined in pen, otherwise clean and bright. Nice copy. Photos available. Other titles by Jekyll in this series of reprints also listed. Pictures available.

London: Macmillan 1997 2 volume set. Hardcover book , 1st Edition, 2nd impression., 22.5x29cms. Book Vol 1 - 286 pages. Book Vol 2 - , 319 pages. Both volumes with colour illustrations to every page. A Fine set in near Fine dustjackets which are very slightly rubbed on corners with very light creases to spine. Top closed page edges lightly spotted. No inscription and not price clipped. Pictures available.

London, Allen Lane,1981 Hardcover book , first edition in dustjacket. Signed and dedicated by the author to Professor Stearn, 'the doyen of us all' a Fine copy in a near fine dustjacket with very light sunning to spine of jacket. Pictures available.

Printed by Washburn & Sons for J F Spencer & Son, Ltd 1947 A complete record, giving information for the Commercial Grower as well as the Amateur Gardener. Hardcover book , 1st ED, 88pp, b&w illustrations, publishers advertising to rear. Red paper covered boards, sunned to edges and spine, heavier sunning to rear. Staple rust marks and light foxing to endpapers. Contents clean. A Good+ copy. Pictures available.

London. Faber and Faber Limited. 1967. Hard Cover book . First Edition. In dust jacket. 304 pages, with illustrations. Lawrence Hills covers all aspects of gardening, in a practical and sensible way. A Fine copy without inscriptions in a near fine slightly sunned dustjacket. Nice copy Pictures available.

London: Mitchell Beazley, 1996 First edition. Hardcover book . Cloth and colour photo-illustrated dustjacket. 144pp, large quarto. With colour and duotone photographs throughout, many whole page. Fine in Fine jacket, now in clear sleeve. Book plate of previous owner. (after Bewick) label to front free endpaper. Pictures available.

Sussex: Published by the author 1947 2 volume set. Each Book is a 1st ED and with inscription and signature of the author. 449pp with drawings by Roland Wilkes. Book Vol 1 has previous owners address label pasted to inside front board. Some tanning and light spotting to endpapers. Dust jackets have some light chipping to corners and spine ends. A Very Good set in Very Good dust jacket. Pictures available.

Oxford, Phaidon, 1988, First Edition Hardcover book with dustjacket 142 pages, First Edition. A celebration of the English Apple. Illustrated with 122 watercolours of not only historic but also new forms from Pippins to Bramleys. A Fine copy in a Fine dustjacket, . No inscriptions , price clipped. Pictures available.