By Various
London   C. Arthur Pearson LTD
11.5" by 8.5" 932pp
Twenty-six issues of the scarce 'Home Gardening' magazine bound in one, a charming 1920s gardening peridocial.
By Various

1928 Home Gardening

London   C. Arthur Pearson LTD
11.5" by 8.5" 932pp
Twenty-six issues of the scarce 'Home Gardening' magazine bound in one, a charming 1920s gardening peridocial.
£65.00
: 3kgs / : 833P22

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Description

Colour Plates, Illustrated, Rebound, Scarce

A scarce collection of twenty-six issues of 'Home Gardening' magazine.

Twenty-six issues bound in one each issue including the original colour wraps. The front wraps are colourfully illustrated 

Including extensive essays on gardening at home on a variety of subjects, such as vegetable gardens, planting rose trees, letting ivy cover walls and fences, spring cleaning your herbaceous border, after winter touches to the rock garden, how to raise celery seedlings, safeguarding fruit trees from disease, and more.

Illustrated throughout with in-text illustrations, and colour front wraps, including illustrations to the adverts.

Each issue is replete with adverts, all relating to home and gardening in some capacity.

Issues include: No. 1, March 15 1928; No. 2, March 22 1928; No. 3, March 29 1928; No. 4, April 5 1928; No. 5, April 12 1928; No. 6, April 19 1928; No. 7, April 26 1928; No. 8, May 3 1928; No. 9, May 10 1928; No. 10, May 17 1928; No. 11, May 24 1928; No. 12, May 31 1928; No. 13, June 7 1928; No. 14, June 14 1928; No. 15, June 21 1928; No. 16, June 28 1928; No. 17, July 5 1928; No. 18, July 12 1928; No. 19, July 19 1928; No. 20, July 26 1928; No. 21, August 2 1928; No. 22, August 9 1928; No. 23, August 16 1928; No. 24, August 23 1928; No. 25, August 30 1928; No. 26, September 6 1928.

Condition

Bound in a cloth binding. Externally, generally smart, with some marks to the boards and spine. Minor bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities. Hinges are strained, front hinge a little more so. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are age-toned and clean. Front wrap of No. 1 is detaching. Large tear to page 183/184, may detach with further handling. Loss to the front wrap of No. 7 and No. 1. Small closed tear to the margin of pages 861-870.

Good

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