Search Results: Roses from Mike Park Ltd

London: Viking, 1986. Well illustrated, quarto, pp 224, a slight suggestion of age-toning around the margins, otherwise a very good copy in dustwrapper. [A huge array of information including the rose in art, history, lore, antiquity, with biographies of breeders, and much practical material as well.]. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good.

Woodbridge: Antique Collectors' Club, 1990. Revised edition. Well illustrated, tall quarto, pp 455, very clean internally, olive cloth in very good condition, the dustwrapper is just slightly worn and frayed. A heavy book - extra postage may be needed. [A seminal work from one of the leading rose growers of his time.]. Cloth. Very Good/Slightly worn.

London: RHS, 1938. Illustrated, large octavo, pp 207 + Proceedings, fore-edge foxed, title page a little foxed, otherwise very clean internally, paperback, covers a little bruised at the corners, otherwise in good condition. [ Includes A Botanical Study of Rose Stocks; The First Twenty-Five Years of Wisley Garden; Flower Hunting in Cyprus; Plants of Sierra Nevada Spain; Samuel Curtis; The Nymans Garden Library; with reports on the trials of Apples and Dutch Irises.]. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good.

Norwich: Jarrolds, 1979. A small 12mo slim booklet, well illustrated, pp (32), paperback, covers slightly age-toned, otherwise a very good copy. SCARCE. [Postage will be greatly reduced]. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good.

Paris: Lucien Laveur, 1903. Quarto, pp 130, (6), + 60 colour chromolithograph plates on thick stippled paper, the text pages uncut and unopened, the plates with a facing protective page containing the name (these facing page are a bit aged and browned and fraying at the edges,, the plates are still clean, sound and unmarked), all pages are loose as issued in this form, in an original green folder with silver lettering, slightly worn and marked, and lacking the upper ties (of three). A duplicate from the Royal Horticultural lLndley Library, this copy being the Reginald Cory bequest copy, with two labels on the front endpaper, but no other markings. [Cory had a passion for plants and botany and in the early 1930s he undertook a number of plant hunting expeditions, and commissioned others, some of the results of which are exhibited at Dyffryn. He would also share plants with other gardens, including the Cambridge Botanic Garden. Amongst other features, the gardens bear evidence of his trips to Italy.… Read More

London: West, Newman & Co A List of British Roses. p 67. [TOGETHER WITH] The British Roses (excluding Eu-caninae). pp 141. [TOGETHER WITH] The Subsection Eu-caninae of the Genus Rosa. pp 110. Very slight foxing, otherwise very clean internally. Neatly bound in a simple half calf and patterned cloth, slightly rubbed. {Supplements to Journal of Botany} VERY SCARCE 1911 - 1910 - 1908 £35.00. First Edition. Half-Leather. Very Good.

London: Francis Westley, 1824. Small slim octavo, pp 189 (+ 3 page publisher's catalogues), edges untrimmed, endpapers a little marked and soiled, just a little age-toned internally but otherwise tight and sound, original pink boards, rubbed and marked, the spine dull, paper title label dull, joints worn but firm. VERY SCARCE. . First Edition. Boards. Good.

Philadelphia & London: J.B. Lippincott, 1914. Well illustrated with 96 colour plates, 8 black and white plates, thick square octavo, pp 158, the top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed as issued, slight age-toning, but otherwise very clean internally, green cloth very slightly rubbed, with oval pictorial inlay which is a little scuffed. [The scarce first edition of a classic American work.]. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good.

Old Bailey & Derby: Bemrose & Sons Ltd Six volumes of this rare series. Each volume has unillustrated text, but is proceeded by pages of advertisements which are illustrated, small square octavo, original printed boards, the contents clean, but the boards rather chipped and frayed; two volumes have detached upper covers. Each volumje has a portrait frontispiece of a notable rose grower - these are small oval portraits and appear to be original photographs. The bindings are almost certainly designed by Worthington G. Smith. [A rare series which was first published in 1885 and probably ended in 1901. Shortly after that, the Rose Annual commenced in 1907.]. First Edition. Boards. Fair.

1962. Small octavo, pp 160, age-toned and slightly worn internally, paperback, the covers a little worn and chipped, lacking a small corner, the spine peeling. RARE. [ Currently now called the Europa Rosarium, it is one of the largest rose gardens in the world. Today the garden contains about 75,000 rose bushes representing over 6,300 different rose cultivars, of which 2,000 can only be found in Sangerhausen. This catalogue lists the collection at 1962, together with breeder's name and date.]. Paperback. Fair.

Australia: The Garden Gurus, 2007. Well illustrated, very large quarto, pp xx, 179, a very good copy in dustwrapper. {Very heavy - extra postage will be required if sending abroad.]. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good.

London: Macmillan, 1994. [Pan Garden Plants Series]. Very well illustrated, quarto, pp 224, paperback, a very good copy showing only the slightest signs of use.. Paperback. Very Good.

Woodbridge: Garden Art Press, 1998. Well illustrated, small quarto, pp 110, very clean internally, white cloth very slightly age-toned at the edges, the dustwrapper is a little faded and with very slight signs of use and a slight dimple near the spine. Signed by artist on the title page. [The Scots Roses of hedgerows and wild gardens are a characteristic feature of earlt summer. Modest in appearance at first glance, they nevertheless merit attention, for unlike some of their cultivated cousins thay are consistently reliable and completely trouble free. This is a pictorial survey by a very distinguished botanical artist of this attractive rose species. Mary McMurtrie's charming painting style capturs the soft texture and gentle colours of the petals and the sharpness of the thorns of this, the most prickly, but none the less, most beautiful, of roses.]. Signed by Artist. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Slightly faded.

Woodbridge: Antique Collectors' Club, 1999. Well illustrated with photos mostly in colour, octavo, pp 288, hardback in laminated boards, no dustwrapper as issued, the very slightest signs of use. (This is a reprint of the 1993 edition. Parts of this book first appeared in "The Heritage of the Rose" by David Austin, 1988, revised 1990, reprinted 1993).. Pictorial laminated boards. Very Good.