The Rock Garden by Reginald Farrer with Eight Colored Plates No Date Found published by T.C.& E.C Jack Edinburgh
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This is The Rock Garden by Reginald Farrer, a gardening book on rock gardens from the Present-Day Gardening series edited by R. Hooper Pearson, published by T.C. & E.C. Jack of London and Edinburgh, with eight colored plates.
The green cloth boards with a pasted color plate on the front show wear at the edges and corners, and two color plates are loose, though all other pages are firmly attached, as shown in the photos.
Farrer writes about rock plants and how to raise them, with text pages on the method of propagation and the varieties of S. Lingulata, and the color plates show alpine flowers among the stones.
Details
- Item: Hardcover book
- Title: The Rock Garden
- Author: Reginald Farrer
- Illustrator: Not confirmed from photos
- Publisher: T.C. & E.C. Jack, 67 Long Acre W.C., London, and Edinburgh
- Publication Year: Not confirmed from photos
- Edition and Printing: Not confirmed from photos
- Format and Binding: Hardcover, green cloth boards with a pasted color plate on the front, Present-Day Gardening series edited by R. Hooper Pearson
- Dust Jacket: None shown in the photos
- Genre: Gardening, rock gardens
- Language: English
- ISBN: Not confirmed from photos
- Dimensions: 8 x 7 x 1 inches
Condition Grade: Good
Positives
- Graded Good: Complete and usable, with clear signs of use, and every flaw is named in this listing.
- All pages other than the two loose plates are firmly attached.
- Eight colored plates, per the title page, with blue, purple, and white flowers shown in the photos.
- The text pages shown are clean and readable.
Issues / Wear
- Wear on the boards, rubbed at the edges, corners, and spine ends.
- Two color plates are loose.
- Handwritten note at the top of the series half title page.
- Light spotting and age toning to the pages.
Please view the photos. Scroll in to judge the condition. This is the actual book you will be receiving.
This Present-Day Gardening volume brings you Farrer on rock plants with color plates of alpine flowers, and it suits a gardener who builds with stone. If it's the right copy for you, it's ready to come home.
- Near Fine: Close to new. Any flaw is small and named above.
- Very Good: Light use. Every flaw is named above, and none of them get in the way of reading or display.
- Good: Complete and usable, with clear signs of use. Every flaw is named above.
- Fair: Heavy wear or damage, named above. A reading or working copy, not a display piece.
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