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Wright (John). The Flower Grower's Guide, 6 volumes, London: Virtue & Company, [1896-1901], 46 chromolithograph plates, each with tissue-guard, all edges gilt, original publishers light blue decorated cloth gilt, very lightly rubbed (generally in very good condition), 4to, together with Thompson (William). The New Gardener's Calendar; or, Everyman a Complete Gardener..., a new essay on the mystery and management of bees.., London: Printed for Alex. Hogg, [1779], engraved frontispiece (fore-and lower edge somewhat trimmed), 107 pp. with advertisements to verso of final leaf, and 12-page publisher's catalogue bound in at rear, a few minor marks to margins, untrimmed, rebound in modern half-calf, spine gilt-ruled with morocco title label, 8vo, plus [Edward Beck]. The Florist, Fruitist, and Garden Miscellany, 1861, 12 hand-coloured lithograph plates by J. Andrews, including one large folding plate of grapes (minor wear to folds), contemporary black half leather gilt, some marks to covers, 8vo, and other natural history and related including Robert Thompson The Gardener's Assistant, new edition revised and extended by Thomas Moore Blackie & Son, 1884, (with chromolithograph and monochrome plates, contemporary full calf, thick 8vo, John M. Wilson, The Rural Cyclopedia, or a General Dictionary of Agriculture, and of the arts, sciences, instruments, and practice necessary to the farmer, stock farmer, gardener, forrester, land steward, farrier, & c., 4 volumes, Edinburgh: A. Fullarton, 1848 (bound in contemporary uniform green half calf gilt, spines gilt decorated), E. J. Lowe, A Natural History of British Grasses, 1st edition, George Bell and Sons, 1871, in original publishers green cloth, and six others (Quantity: 20)