Old English Gardening Books
Rohde, Eleanour Sinclair
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Book Details:
Publisher:Minerva Press
ISBN:0856360023
Published Date:30th November -0001
Dimensions:168 X 250 X 24 mm
Weight:0.6624 kilograms
Binding:hardcover
Condition:VeryGood
Notes:1st thus HB Minerva Press; very good in very good unclipped jacket; previous owner designer bookplate on endpaper; one of a limited edition of 500 copies;very good in like new dust jacket; Hardback, 9.5 x 6.5 inches. brown cloth with gilt lettering to spine. In illustrated dustwrapper. 144pp. Illustrated with 8 plans and 16 B&W plates. In very good near fine condition with very good dustwrapper (DW some minor rubbing along top edges, Not price clipped, in protective sleeve.) Inside pages all very clean and tight throughout. Bookplate to front endpaper ?Mina Bowater? Designed by gun engraver Malcolm Appleby. Appleby turned his Silver Trust commission towards a more peaceful end: the pieces are lavishly engraved. From his workshop, in a converted railway station near Aberdeen, he says, ?I like to keep my eye on the outside world.? But he is a far from detached observer; his engravings contain opinions.
