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Livres anciens et modernes

Childs, John Lewis (Editor)

The Mayflower, Volume IX, No. 7, July 1893

1893

38,54 €

Horizon Books

(Toronto, Canada)

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Détails

Année
1893
Lieu d'édition
Floral Park, New York. John Lewis Childs
Auteur
Childs, John Lewis (Editor)
Edition
First edition.
Thème
Gardening - General
Langues
Anglais
Premiére Edition
Oui

Description

4to [30.5 x 22 cm]; [193] - 2224 pp, 2 colored lithographs (chromolithographs), lithographed by H. M. Wall, Brooklyn NY, other illustrations from engravings, photos, ads. original pictorial floral paper wraps, some signs of light use, very good. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. A gardening magazine, issued monthly, started in 1885 and ending in 1906 when it became Floral Life. The magazine has articles on flowers and fruit by notable writers including Edward Weaver, Wm. Speck, Edward S. Rand, Peter B. Mead, C. L. Allen and others and some fascinating illustrated advertisements at the back. The colored lithographed plates are of Winter Blooming Oxalis with several varieties in flower, and Sanseviera Zealanica, mother-in-law's tongue. Childs was a publisher and nurseryman, his 'Mayflower Press printed many attractive horticultural catalogues' [U. P. Hedrick, A History of Horticulture in America].
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