Every man his own gardener: being a new and much more complete gardener's calendar and general directory ... By Thomas Mawe, ... and John Abercrombie, ...
John Abercrombie (1726 - 1806)
Category
Books
Date
1822
Materials
Measurements
180 x 113 x 38 mm
Place of origin
London
Collection
Kingston Lacy Estate, Dorset
NT 3013607
Summary
Full description
Orientation: Vertical Text Substrate: machine-made wove paper Ink/Pigment: black printing ink Type: BOUND BOOK Binding Type: Inboard binding, recessed supports & hollow Date of Binding: contemporary Binder's Name: English End Leaves: Sewn double fold of machine-made white paper, the outer leaves (?) as pastedowns. Structure: EnglishEdges: Plain cut, sprinkled with a brown pigment and polished Spine Lining: Near flatwith square joints, glued with a paper hollow End Bands: Worked 1x1 in uncoloured plain thread from left to right over rolled paper cores with t3 tie-downsBookmark: NoneBoards: Covering: Halfbrown tanned calf with shell marbled paper on the sides Tooling Spine: gold-tooled dotted roll acros bands, panels filledwith repeated impressions of a pallet, title tooled direct in panel 2Tooling Sides: NoneFurniture: NoneEnclosure: NoneBinding Notes: 2 slides only
Bibliographic description
vii,[1],726p.,plate . ill..,port.. . 8vo.
Makers and roles
John Abercrombie (1726 - 1806), author Thomas Mawe, author