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The Fern Garden: How to Make, Keep, and Enjoy It
Shirley Hibberd
1869
Groombridge and Sons : London
7.5" by 5"
vi, 148, (6)pp.
SUMMARY
A charming first edition of this work on the gardening of ferns illustrated with eight chromolithographic plates.
Colour Plates,First Edition,Illustrated,Original Binding,Publishers Original Binding
Overall Condition: Very Good
This book weighs0.75 KG when packed
UK Postage: £ 3.99
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EU Postage: £ 15.99
European Postage: £ 16.99
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DESCRIPTION
First edition.
Presentation copy with embossed stamp to the title page.
Illustrated with eight colour plates and forty wood engravings. Collated complete.
Adapted to suit the unskilled and unlearned in fern gardening, covering topics of fern collection, cultivation, management and the art of multiplying ferns.
Written by James Shirley Hibberd, an English writer who became one of the most popular and successful gardening writers of the Victorian era.
CONDITION
In the original green cloth binding. Externally, smart with light rubbing and minor bumping to the extremities. Light fading to the spine with marks to the boards. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with the odd small spot. Light scattered spotting to the first and last few pages with age toning to the endpapers. Embossed stamp to the title page.
Overall Condition: Very Good
GLOSSARY OF TERMS
Overall Condition
(Dustwrapper condition rating is shown after that for the book itself, where a dustwrapper is present)
Fine- Very well preserved copy showing very little wear
Very Good Indeed- Only one or two minor faults, really a very attractive copy
Very Good- Quite a wide term meaning no major faults but probably several smaller ones
often expected given the age of the book, but still a respectable copy
Good- Meaning not very good. Some more serious faults as will
be described in the condition report under condition
Good Only- Meaning one or more faults that could really do with repair
Fair- As with good only above but with other faults
leaving a compromised copy even after repair
Poor- Really bad and possibly seriously incomplete.
We only sell books in this condition where their rarity or value makes them
attractive none the less. Major defects will be described.
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