By Mrs. Loudon
London   William Smith
7" by 4.5" viii, 351pp.
A charming early edition of this gardening manual by acclaimed author Jane Wells Webb Loudon.
By Mrs. Loudon

1846 The Ladies' Companion to the Flower-Garden. Being an Alphabetical Arrangement of All the Ornamental Plants usually grown in Gardens & Shrubberies; With Full Directions for their Culture

London   William Smith
7" by 4.5" viii, 351pp.
A charming early edition of this gardening manual by acclaimed author Jane Wells Webb Loudon.
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Colour Plates, Early Edition, Illustrated

A charming little manual to gardening by Jane Wells Webb Loudon, pioneer in the creation of these popular gardening manuals as opposed to specialist horticultural works. The present copy is of a fourth edition, with considerable additions and corrections. 

Containing an alphabetical arrangement of popular plants found in gardens and shrubberies, and directions for their culture and maintenance. 

With a coloured frontispiece and numerous illustrations in text.

Condition

Full cloth binding, re-backed with the original boards and spine restored, new endpapers, gilt to edges. Externally sound with some shelf wear, spine and boards lightly bumped to extremities, chipped to extremities of boards. Light soiling to boards, few damp marks. Internally, firmly bound. Pages generally clean and bright. Illustrated with a coloured frontispiece and numerous in text designs.

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