I have here for sale a book entitled THE GARDENER'S ASSISTANT: Practical and Scientific.  A Guide to the Formation and Management of the Kitchen, Fruit, and Flower Garden and the Cultivation of Conservatory, Green House, and Stove Plants with a copious Calendar of Gardening Operations by Robert Thompson.  First edition published by Blackie & Son, London in 1888.  It has 12 gorgeous hand-painted colour plates at the start of the book and b/w in text illustrations throughout.  

Dark green blind stamped cloth hardboards with a gilt image and lettering to the centre of the front board.  Gilt decorative frame with gilt lettering inside to the spine.  Chipped to head and tail, wear to corners and cloth split to front hinge.  Boards firm though.  Yellow endpapers with inscriptions to front one.  Foxing to first and last few pages.  Others clean.  774 pages, 26 x 17 cm.

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Postage will be by Air Mail outside of UK.  If you buy more than one item then the postage cost falls for the second and further items as I will put them into one parcel - so you save money. We wrap and post the parcels on Monday and Tuesday - therefore if you pay before midday on Tuesday we will get it in the postal sacks on Tuesday night, and if it is after that time then it will go into the postal service on the following Monday.