THOMPSON, W. The English Flower Garden: A Monthly Magazine of Hardy and Half-Hardy Plants. London: Simpkin, Marshall, and Co., 1852-53. First edition. Two volumes in one. Half gilt-tooled morocco. 9 3/8 x 7 inches (24.75 x 17.75 cm); 23 hand-colored engraved plates (including two frontispieces), in-text illustrations. Spine stained, boards rubbed, a bit overopened, scattered foxing particularly to endpapers; HILL, JOHN. The Family Herbal... Bungay: G. Brightly and Co., 1812. Later edition. Modern leather. 8 3/8 x 4 7/8 inches (21.25 x 12.5 cm); xl, 376 pp.; 54 hand-colored engraved plates. Foxed throughout (heavy at times), occasional offsetting from plates; and McINTOSH, CHARLES. The Practical Gardener, and Modern Horticulturist... London: Thomas Kelly 1828-29. First edition. Two volumes. Contemporary half leather over marbled boards. 8 1/4 x 5 1/8 inches (21 x 13 cm); additional engraved vignette title page, engraved plates (many hand-colored), in-text illustrations. Generally a bit rubbed and worn with some loss to extremities, engraved title browned and stained with loss to lower corner, some foxing and staining throughout. The lot three titles in four volumes. C Property of a Maine Collector
THOMPSON, W. The English Flower Garden: A Monthly Magazine of Hardy and Half-Hardy Plants. London: Simpkin, Marshall, and Co., 1852-53. First edition. Two volumes in one. Half gilt-tooled morocco. 9 3/8 x 7 inches (24.75 x 17.75 cm); 23 hand-colored engraved plates (including two frontispieces), in-text illustrations. Spine stained, boards rubbed, a bit overopened, scattered foxing particularly to endpapers; HILL, JOHN. The Family Herbal... Bungay: G. Brightly and Co., 1812. Later edition. Modern leather. 8 3/8 x 4 7/8 inches (21.25 x 12.5 cm); xl, 376 pp.; 54 hand-colored engraved plates. Foxed throughout (heavy at times), occasional offsetting from plates; and McINTOSH, CHARLES. The Practical Gardener, and Modern Horticulturist... London: Thomas Kelly 1828-29. First edition. Two volumes. Contemporary half leather over marbled boards. 8 1/4 x 5 1/8 inches (21 x 13 cm); additional engraved vignette title page, engraved plates (many hand-colored), in-text illustrations. Generally a bit rubbed and worn with some loss to extremities, engraved title browned and stained with loss to lower corner, some foxing and staining throughout. The lot three titles in four volumes. C Property of a Maine Collector
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