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The Fern Garden: How to Make, Keep, and Enjoy It; or, Fern Culture Made Easy
Shirley Hibberd
1869
Groombridge and Sons : London
7.5" by 4.5"
vi, 148, [4]pp
SUMMARY
A charming volume on the gardening of ferns illustrated with eight chromolithographic plates.
Colour Plates,Illustrated,Publishers' Original Binding
Overall Condition: Good
This book weighs 0.5 KG when packed
UK Postage: £ 3.99
US Postage: £ 15.99
EU Postage: £ 13.99
European Postage: £ 14.99
Asia Postage: £ 18.99
Worldwide Postage: £ 19.99
DESCRIPTION
Second edition.
A small volume adapted to suit the unskilled and unlearned in fern gardening, covering topics of fern collection, cultivation, management and the art of multiplying ferns.
Shirley Hibberd was one of the most popular gardening writers of the Victorian era, experiencing much success. He was the editor of three gardening magazines and wrote over a dozen books on gardening and natural history.
With eight chromolithographic plates and forty wood engravings. With four pages of publisher's adverts.
Collated, complete.
CONDITION
In the publisher's original green cloth binding. Externally, smart with some light bumping to the head and tail of the spine and a few marks to the boards. Both hinges are weak and the front free endpaper has come away but is present. Internally, the binding is loosening to the front and rear of the volume. Pages are bright and generally clean with a few scattered spots.
Overall Condition: 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.
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