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1936 The Living Garden or the How & Why of Garden Life
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Description
Folding Plates, Illustrated, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding, With Dustwrapper
Fourth impression. With the vanishingly scarce original unclipped dust wrapper. Illustrated with seventeen plates, one of which is folding, and numerous in-text images. Collated complete. A detailed guide to the science behind a growing garden, pointing out the many wonderful things happening under our eyes in the garden as an opportunity to both educate and delight the reader. With chapters on soil, sunlight and shade, cold and warmth, propagation, germination, weeds, and more. Written by Sir Edward James Salisbury, an English botanist and ecologist. Illustrated by Gwendy Caroe, an Australian artist and illustrator.
Condition
In the original full green cloth binding. Externally, excellent with minor shelf wear only. Original unclipped dust wrapper is smart with light wear to the extremities and the odd small mark to the panels. Sunning to the spine and panel edges. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean with minor age toning to the endpapers.
Near Fine
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