Field Flowers; A Handy-Book for The Rambling Botanist, Suggesting What to Look For and Where to Go In the Out-Door Study of British Plants

Shirley Hibberd

Published by Groombridge and Sons, London, 1870

About this Item

A very scarce first edition copy of this beautifully illustrated work on flowers. The very scarce first edition of the work.In publisher's original decorative blue cloth binding.Illustrated with a coloured frontispiece, 7 further coloured plates, and in text illustrations throughout. Collated, complete.A work by Shirley Hibberd, one of the most popular and successful gardening writers of theVictorian era. He was a best-selling editor of three gardening magazines, includingAmateur Gardening, the only 19th-century gardening magazine still being published today. Hibberd wrote over a dozen books on gardening and several more on natural history and related subjects.This volume depicts the flowers of the differing months. In publisher's original decorative blue cloth binding.Externally, very smart. Light bumping to the head and tail of the spine, with fading. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Very Good Indeed.

Seller Inventory # 994G59

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Field Flowers; A Handy-Book for The Rambling Botanist, Suggesting What to Look For and Where to Go In the Out-Door Study of British Plants
• Publisher: Groombridge and Sons, London
• Publication Date: 1870
• Binding: Cloth
• Illustrator: Not Stated
• Edition: First edition.
• Condition: Very Good Indeed
• Book Type: book