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1870 Alpine Flowers for English Gardens
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Description
First Edition, Illustrated, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding
First edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece and numerous in-text or full-page images. A detailed and comprehensive guide to the use of Alpine plants in an English garden, with chapters on the rock garden, construction, succulents, flowers for exhibition, hardy plants, and more. This work for the first time showed how to use alpine plants in a designed rock garden. Written by William Robinson, an Irish practical gardener and journalist whose ideas about wild gardening spurred the movement that led to the popularising of the English cottage garden.
Condition
In the original full blue cloth binding. Externally, smart with light rubbing and minor bumping to the extremities. Light fading to the spine with the odd small mark to the boards. Small splits in the cloth to the head and tail of the spine. Hinges starting but firm. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with the odd small spot. Contemporary ink inscription to the front endpaper.
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