Lot 13 , Old Garden Manuals - mostly Victorian, bound in decorated cloth and small 8vo, includes:

Old Garden Manuals - mostly Victorian, bound in decorated cloth and small 8vo, includes: Hibberd's The Amateur's Kitchen Garden, 1877; Hibberd's Rustic Adornments, 1857; Glenny's Handbook of the Flower Garden and Greenhouse, 3rd edition, 1857; Mrs Loudon's The Ladies Companion to the Flower Garden, 7th edition, 1858; Hibberd's The Amateurs Greenhouse and Conservatory, new edition, 1894, together with 11 others
Estimate £40-60

Hibberd's Kitchen - col. plates etc, gilt decorated cloth, good but lacks front free endpaper
Hibberd's Rustic - col. title and other plates, etc. gilt pictorial cloth, spine lightly faded, very good and rather 'superior' to others
Glenny - frontis, gilt decorated cloth, upper cover lightly discoloured otherwise good
Mrs Loudon -col. frontis etc, gilt pictorial cloth, good copy
Hibberd's Greenhouse - col. frontis, col. pictorial cloth, good copy, others include Geo.W. Johnson's The Cottage Gardener's Dictionary, 5th edition, 1860, engr. illus and gilt decorated cloth, in rather larger 8vo format to the others.


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