With a Foreword by Richard Church and illustrations by Margaret Wetherbee. Pp. 124, title page vignette, head & tailpiece illustrations; edges of boards a trifle rubbed; price-clipped dust wrapper, lightly soiled and worn, edges chipped and split; free endpapers faintly offset and a trifle foxed; Hutchinson , London, 1953. First..... More
Pp. 288, coloured illustrations throughout (some full and double page), printed endpapers, selected sources, further reading, index; med. 4to; green boards, spine gilt, lower fore-corner of lower board bruised and worn; dust wrapper, edges lightly worn, fore-corners split; small surface graze to pages 6 and 7; Chapmans, London, 1993. First..... More
Pp. 176, coloured illustrations throughout (some full and double page), coloured pictorial endpapers, index; med. 4to; green boards, spine lettered in silver, dust wrapper; Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 2007. First edition. More
Photography by Andrew Lawson and Christopher Simon Sykes. Pp. 176, illustrated in colour (some full and double page) and black & white, appendices, index; med. 4to; pictorial stiff paper wrappers; Cassellpaperbacks, London, 2001 First paperback edition. *First published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, in 2000. More
With a short essay by Carey S. Bliss. Pp. [viii]+28, text illustrations and decorations, the title page printed in red & black, bibliography; f'cap. folio; pictorial cream cloth, spine lettered in gilt; plain dust wrapper; Book Club of California, San Francisco, 1977. Edition limited to 385 copies, printed by Grant..... More
Photographs by Tony Cenicola, foreword by Rosemary Verey. Pp. 256(last blank), coloured illustrations throughout (some full page), source information, index; sq. cr. 4to; cerise boards, lettered in white, bottom edges slightly worn; dust wrapper, short split in backstrip; gift inscription on upper pastedown; Macdonald Orbis, London, 1989. First edition. More
Foreword by Frank M. Bowen, Photographs by Ernest Crowson. Pp. xlvi (with black & white illustrations)+96 (coloured plates)+97-192(The Dictionary, last blank); med. 4to; dark red art. leather, spine lettered and ruled in gilt, lower fore-corner of upper board bumped; price-clipped dust wrapper, edges slightly worn, lightly browned, tape marks on..... More
Pp. 100, coloured and black & white plates, text illustrations, index; price-clipped dust wrapper, edges a trifle rubbed; Blandford Press, 1961. First edition. *Covers the history, bloom types, cultivation, propagation, pests and diseases of miniature chrysanthemums. More
Pp. xx+304(last printer's mark), title page illustration, the half-title within decorative border, numerous text illustrations and decorations, notes, alphabetical table of plants; post 4to; full vellum, slightly cloudy, the spine lettered in gilt with five raised bands, boards slightly sprung; t.e.g., others uncut; ribbon marker; commercial bookplate on upper pastedown;..... More
Pp. 48(including the free endpapers), illustrated in colour throughout, glossary, index; small cr. 4to; pictorial glazed papered boards; Steck-Vaughn Library, Austin, Texas, 1990. Second impression. The Green World series. More
Photography by Marianne Majerus, Andrew Butler and Andrew Lawson. Introduction by H.R.H. The Prince of Wales. Pp. 240, illustrated in colour throughout (many full or double page), pictorial upper endpapers, lower endpaper plan, plant listing, index; wide demy 4to; dark green papered boards, spine lettered in gilt; dust wrapper; Weidenfeld..... More
Pp. 106, illustrated in colour and black & white, index; impl. 8vo; black boards, spine lettered in gilt; dust wrapper, lightly scuffed, verso foxed; Ure Smith, Sydney, 1973. First edition. More
My Life and Thoughts. Foreword by Jane Edmanson. Pp. xiv+240, 8 plates, text illustrations, appendices, bibliography; edges of boards a trifle rubbed; dust wrapper; Information Australia, [Melbourne], 2000. First edition. More
Pp. xxiv+572, 24 coloured or part-coloured plates, text and endpaper maps, notes, bibliography, index; med. 8vo; pictorial papered boards, spine blocked in green and lettered in gilt; within green card slipcase; The Folio Society, London, 2007. First edition thus. *Quinine, sugar, tea, cotton, potato, coca. Originally published by Sidgwick &..... More
Pp. [ii](limitation page)+x+304, coloured frontispiece plus 8 half-tone plates from photographs (2 tinted), all with lettered tissue guards, title page vignette, 3 garden plans (2 full page), pictorial head & tailpieces, pictorial endpapers printed in dull gilt, the series title and main title page printed in red & black, index;..... More
Photographs by Simon Griffiths. Pp. x+246, coloured illustrations throughout (some full and double page), coloured illustrated endpapers, index; super roy. 4to; cream boards, lettered in gilt, top and bottom portions of boards faded to white; dust wrapper, slightly scuffed; some pencilled annotations and underscoring; Viking, Melbourne, 1997. Fourth printing. More
An unpublished chapter from Round About A Great Estate. Edited and introduced by George Miller. With engravings by Nicholas Parry. Pp. [44](last 3 blank), illustrations and decorations printed in various single colours (a couple full page); small 8vo; qr. grey paper, lettered and decorated in green, cream papered boards patterned..... More
Edited and with an introduction by George Millar. Pp. 14+[2](colophon, verso blank), hand-tipped frontispiece with loose tissue guard, the colophon decoration printed in orange; qr. grey/green cloth with printed paper title label on spine, marbled papered boards, edges slightly rubbed, the cloth a trifle soiled; Eric & Joan Stevens, Daedalus..... More
Pp. [vi]+90, frontispiece portrait, plus 16 plates, appendix; fore-corners of boards slightly bruised; dust wrapper, corners a trifle creased, the backstrip faded; Michael Russell, Wilton, Salisbury, 1985. First edition thus. *The text was originally published in serial form in the North Wilts Herald in 1867, under the title History of..... More
Prints by Nicholas Parry. Pp. [60], printed in various muted single colours and including 15 full page coloured illustrations, plus a pictorial tailpiece printed in dull green; oblong 8vo; blue/grey cloth with printed paper title label on spine and pictorial title label inlaid at centre of upper board; fore-edges uncut;..... More
Illustrated by Esdaile Hudson. Pp. 176, sepia pictorial double title page and numerous text illustrations (several full page); cr. 4to; top fore-corner of lower board a trifle bruised; dust wrapper, backstrip faintly faded; Swan Hill, Shewsbury, 1994. More
Pp. 160, coloured illustrations (some full page), suggested reading, index; impl. 8vo; green boards, spine lettered in gilt; dust wrapper, faded and lightly scuffed, verso lightly browned; upper endpapers slightly marked, some pencilled and inked annotations; Century, London, 1987. First edition. *'Learning from the great gardeners of today' [wrapper blurb]..... More
Pp. 288, illustrated throughout in colour and black & white (some full or double page), further reading, index; cr. 4to; green boards, spine lettered in gilt; dust wrapper, edges a trifle rubbed; Pavilion, London, 2010. First edition. *Published to accompany a BBC television series. Chapters cover life on the farm..... More
Foreword by The Rt. Hon. Sir John Marshall. Pp. 160, illustrated in colour throughout; roy. 4to; pictorial glazed papered boards, faded at top edge of upper board; dust wrapper, backstrip and front panel faded; Lansdowne Press, Auckland, 1983. First edition. More
Paintings by Joyce Blake. Pp. 112, illustrated throughout in colour and occasional black & white, pictorial endpapers, list of rose varieties; demy 4to; beige cloth, spine lettered in gilt; dust wrapper, slightly creased at top edge of front panel; name and date (1982) in ink at head of half-title page;..... More
