The Garden Book of Sir Thomas Hanmer
PUBLISHER
Gerald Howe, London.
BINDING
Brown cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine.
BOOK CONDITION
Boards are generally worn and scuffed, corners bumped. Hinges a little weak but binding feels secure. Some browning, light foxing mainly affecting outer leaves. Otherwise printed pages remain largely clear and little marked. Some pencilled notes.
DUST JACKET
No.
EDITION
1933, in a limited edition of 900 copies.
DESCRIPTION
A re-printing from the original 1659 manuscript, of one of the most distinguished Horticulturalists of the mid 17th Century. Introduction by Eleanour Sinclair Rhode. Frontispiece portrait, facsimiles of original handwritten text. 187 pp. Octavo.
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