Every man his own gardener : the complete gardener, or, Gardener's calendar of work to be done in the kitchen, fruit, flower, forcing garden, &c. for every month in the year, with classical list of trees, shrubs, plants, and flowers, proper for cultivation in British gardens, plantations, etc. / 3200925

Every man his own gardener : the complete gardener, or, Gardener's calendar of work to be done in the kitchen, fruit, flower, forcing garden, &c. for every month in the year, with classical list of trees, shrubs, plants, and flowers, proper for cultivation in British gardens, plantations, etc. /

John Abercrombie (1726 - 1806)

Date

1860

Materials

Place of origin

London

Collection

Calke Abbey, Derbyshire

NT 3200925

Summary

Bibliographic description

720 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 19cm. Imperfect: wanting titlepage, plate and leaves before p. 3. Provenance: Inscribed on upper pastedown: "I.C. from H. [...] ? 1883". Binding: Nineteenth-century quarter maroon cloth on green cloth. Gilt lettering on spine: "Mawes Every man his own gardener. Additions by Glenny". Boards detached, textblock damaged, leaves missing. In phasebox.

Makers and roles

John Abercrombie (1726 - 1806), author William Gowans, author Thomas Mawe George Glenny (1793-1874)

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