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[R.W.Dickson] "Alexander McDonald"
A Complete Dictionary of Practical Gardening... with correct engravings... from original engravings by Sydenham Edwards. London: R.Taylor & Co. for Geaorge Kearsley, 1807. 2 volumes, 4° (258 x 207mm). 61 fine hand-coloured engraved plates by F. Sansom after Sydenham Edwards. (Lacking the 13 uncoloured plates of tools and enclosures called for by the index at end of vol.II, some browning to text.) Contemporary calf gilt (neatly rebacked to style). Provenance: R.E. Blakeney (inscription).
FIRST EDITION. According to Dunthorne the text and plates were reissued as The new botanic garden (1812) and as The new flora Britannica (1812). Dunthorne 106; Great Flower Books p.66; Johnston Cleveland 718; Nissen BBI 479. (2)
A Complete Dictionary of Practical Gardening... with correct engravings... from original engravings by Sydenham Edwards. London: R.Taylor & Co. for Geaorge Kearsley, 1807. 2 volumes, 4° (258 x 207mm). 61 fine hand-coloured engraved plates by F. Sansom after Sydenham Edwards. (Lacking the 13 uncoloured plates of tools and enclosures called for by the index at end of vol.II, some browning to text.) Contemporary calf gilt (neatly rebacked to style). Provenance: R.E. Blakeney (inscription).
FIRST EDITION. According to Dunthorne the text and plates were reissued as The new botanic garden (1812) and as The new flora Britannica (1812). Dunthorne 106; Great Flower Books p.66; Johnston Cleveland 718; Nissen BBI 479. (2)
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