1905 A Gardener's Year

Description

First Edition, Folding Plates, Illustrated, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding

First edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece and twenty-four plates, of which are folding. Collated complete. One of the author's lesser known works, this diary of gardening throughout the year provides a thorough explanation of tending to a garden across the year, with a chapter for each month. With insight into planting and harvesting. Written by Sir Henry Rider Haggard, an English writer of adventure fiction romances set in exotic locations and a pioneer of the lost world literary genre. Issue includes publisher's catalogue to the rear dated January 1905, with no impression remarks. First impression catalogue would be dated September 1904 as cited in "A Bibliography of the Works of Sir Henry Rider Haggard 1856-1925" by J. E. Scott.