The 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. /. By T. W. Sanders, ...
Sanders, Thomas William
Category
Books
Date
1926
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Dunham Massey, Cheshire
NT 3248542
Summary
Bibliographic description
Nineteenth edition, with an up-to-date addenda. xv,[1],482,[14] p. ; 19 cm. Six pages of advertisements. Provenance: inscribed "P.S. from a 'Gardener' [i.e. to Elizabeth Louisa Penelope Grey, Countess of Stamford, née Theobald (1866?-1959)]. Loose inserts: Bowell & Skarratt … nurseries, Aromatic plants and herbs [separate entry]; autograph letter signed from Sir John Hanham, of Dean's Court, Wimborne, to Lady Stamford, declining dinner invitation, with flower notes; 9/10/34; typescript letter signed from Harry Gaddum, at the Priory, Bowdon, on "mind-your-own-business" plant; Aug.21st, 1933; picture postcard of Glen Cluny, near Braemar, inscribed "From G.R." (reverse blank]; blank scrap; (on p.57) scrap paper marker, inscribed "lamps you have lighted to brighten the way."; (on p.111) 1953/54 calendar card folder, with Dickens quote. Two markings in text. Binding: publisher's green cloth, blind stamped 'Amateur gardening' device on upper board, spine lettered in black.
Makers and roles
Sanders, Thomas William Thomas William Sanders (1855-1926)