Orchids: . their culture and management. With descriptions of all the kinds in general cultivation. ... By W. Watson ... assisted by W. Bean ...
Sir William Watson (1858 - 1925)
Category
Books
Date
1895
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Peckover House, Cambridgeshire
NT 3140414
Summary
Bibliographic description
xi,[1],554,[6],12p. plates (some col., some folded) . ill.. . 22cm.. Not indigenous. Possibly from the Meade collection? manuscript inscription: "From Canon Warre 1898".. Binding: Nineteenth-century publisher's white leather spine, extending half-way across front and back covers, gilt lettered, gilt and coloured illustrations of orchids; green cloth over boards; front cover leaf patterned in black, gilt and green, back cover plain green; page edges gilt at head.
Provenance
Presented to the National Trust by Miss Daphne Meade in 1999, and formerly in the library of Sidney Meade (1839-1917), Canon of Salisbury Cathedral, of Thurland Castle, Lancashire.
Makers and roles
Sir William Watson (1858 - 1925) William Jackson Bean (1863-1947)