Botany. Anderson (James, editor), The New Practical Gardener...

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Botany. Anderson (James, editor), The New Practical Gardener, London: William Mackenzie, n.d. [1874], illustrated with 27 chromolithographed plates, 5 of which are double-page, contemporary red quarter-calf gilt over cloth, all edges gilt, contemporary ownership inscription: Edward Mills, The Oak Gardens, Ledsham, [West Yorkshire], 4to; Thornton (R.J.), Elements of Botany, two volume set, first edition, London: Printed for the Author, as prizes in the Royal Botanical Lottery, by J. Whiting, 1812, half-title to volume I only, illustrated with plates engraved by Miller after Eves, contemporary marbled boards, rebacked in calf, 8vo; Hulme's Familiar Wild Flowers, First Series only, London: Cassell, n.d. [1878], colour plates, original publisher's pictorial green cloth gilt, all edges gilt, lacking ffep, bookplate, 8vo; Withering's British Plants, eleventh edition, 1863, monochrome plates, contemporary half-calf over marbled boards, 12mo in 6s; Barett's Flowers and Festivals, second edition, 1873, hand-coloured plates, original publisher's cloth, 8vo; nine various numbers of The Botanical Exchange Club and Society of the British Isles Reports, mixed dates from 1913-1932, illustrated, some original wrappers, some lacking, 8vo, (15)