Sanders' encyclopaedia of gardening : A dictionary of cultivated plants, etc., giving in alphabetical sequence the culture and propagation of hardy and half-hardy plants, trees and shrubs, orchids, ferns, fruit, vegetables, hothouse and greenhouse plants, etc., including their specific and common names. Revised by A.J. Macself, editor of Amateur gardening.
Sanders, Thomas William
Category
Books
Date
circa 1930
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Mount Stewart, County Down
NT 3018606
Summary
Bibliographic description
Twenty-first edition. xvii, [3], 477, [15] p., [1] leaf of plates : port. ; 21cm. Provenance: Twentieth-century armorial bookplate (dated 1922) set in a landscape with De Lazlo's portrait of Edith Lady Londonderry in the uniform of the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps in a medallion above, lettered at the bottom of the plate "Edith Helen Marchioness of Londonderry. D.B.E." . Motto in Scottish Gaelic over portrait ("Tha mo cridhe's an tir nam beann" [My heart is in the land of mountains]) [i.e. Edith Helen Chaplin, m. in 1899 Charles Vane-Tempest-Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh and 7th Marquess of Londonderry from 1915]. Binding: Twentieth-century publisher's full polished tree calf, gilt fillet forming a border. Sewn on recessed cords. Brown leather spine label, lettered in gilt. Gilt edges, glossy marbled endpapers. Ticket on lower pastedown "Frank Smythson, Ltd. New Bond Street, London, W".
Makers and roles
Sanders, Thomas William Macself, A. J