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The Forcing Garden or How to Grow Early Fruits, Flowers, and Vegetables
Samuel Wood
1881
Crosby Lockwood and Co. : London
7.5" by 5"
ix, 226, 32, 16pp.
SUMMARY
A scarce first edition of this detailed guide to growing early fruits, vegetables, and flowers in your garden.
First Edition,Original Binding,Publishers Original Binding,Scarce
Overall Condition: Very Good
This book weighs0.75 KG when packed
UK Postage: £ 3.99
US Postage:£ 19.99
EU Postage: £ 15.99
European Postage: £ 16.99
Asia Postage: £ 21.99
Worldwide Postage: £ 25.99
DESCRIPTION
First edition.
Illustrated throughout.
A detailed guide to gardening with plans and estimates showing the best and most economical way of building glass-houses, pits, and frames. Includes chapters on the cultivation of the vine, orchard houses, glass houses, early vegetables, fruits, and flowers, as well as a monthly calendar for the forcing garden.
Written by Samuel Wood, a British author.
Publishers advertisements to the rear.
Bound by W. Bone & Son, London.
CONDITION
In the original full cloth binding. Externally, smart with light shelf wear and bumping to the extremities. Fading to the spine and the extremities. Front hinge starting but firm. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with the odd spot and minor spotting to the endpapers. Bound by W. Bone & Son, London.
Overall Condition: Very Good
GLOSSARY OF TERMS
Overall Condition
(Dustwrapper condition rating is shown after that for the book itself, where a dustwrapper is present)
Fine- Very well preserved copy showing very little wear
Very Good Indeed- Only one or two minor faults, really a very attractive copy
Very Good- Quite a wide term meaning no major faults but probably several smaller ones
often expected given the age of the book, but still a respectable copy
Good- Meaning not very good. Some more serious faults as will
be described in the condition report under condition
Good Only- Meaning one or more faults that could really do with repair
Fair- As with good only above but with other faults
leaving a compromised copy even after repair
Poor- Really bad and possibly seriously incomplete.
We only sell books in this condition where their rarity or value makes them
attractive none the less. Major defects will be described.
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