Abercrombie's Practical Gardener, or improved system of modern horticulture :. adapted either to small or large gardens: containing the laying-out and culture of the kitchen garden, fruit garden, flower garden, shrubbery, pleasure ground, nursery and timber plantation; also, the construction and management of the green-house, or conservatory, hot-house, and forcing garden: with copious tables of plants, systematically divided where they embrace different classes, enlarged so as to comprehend new varieties and recently-discovered species, and made conformable, in the names, with the latest botanical arrangements /
John Abercrombie (1726 - 1806)
Category
Books
Date
1817
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Lacock, Wiltshire
NT 3187996
Summary
Bibliographic description
xxiv, 680 p. ; 12mo. Provenance: nineteenth century manuscript inscription "William Henry Fox Talbot", i.e. William Henry Fox Talbot, 1800-1877, on recto of second free end-paper; "given to me CT" added in manuscript in a different hand directly below this inscription; "CT" is presumably Fox Talbot's wife, Constance Talbot, nee Mundy, 1811-1880; her nineteenth century printed book label reading "Mrs. Talbot" also appears on front pastedown. Pencilled nineteenth century manuscript price inscription "4/" on verso of first free end-paper. Binding: nineteenth century half gilt-tooled calf with marbled paper covers; gilt tooling and gilt tooled title label reading "Abercrombies Gardener" on spine; text block edges marbled brown, red and yellow.
Makers and roles
John Abercrombie (1726 - 1806) James Mean