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 SIGNED

Hibberd, Shirley

Editore: Groomsbridge and Sons, London, 1888

Hardcover. This circa 1888 guide to British wildflowers comes signed by its author, Shirley Hibberd (1825-1890) a popular gardening writer of the Victorian era and a proponent for city gardening, home bee-keeping, vegetarianism, rainwater collection, and environmental conservation ahead of his time. Arranged from month to month and illustrated in 8 color plates and ninety wood engravings throughout, Field Flowers will have you joining its "Rambling Botanist" on his wildflower walks. As Hibberd welcomes you here, ".we are about to make a little series of foraging expeditions for purposes of health, amusement, and the acquisition, if it may be so, of a little knowledge of the vegetable kingdom." Signed and inscribed "with kind regards" by Shirley Hibberd and dated June 1st, 1888 to front free endpaper. 7 3/8" X 5". 156pp. Bound in poppy red cloth over bevelled boards, with floral garden beds stamped in black and decorative title in gilt to upper board and spine. Moderate wear to binding, with bumping to corners, chipping to head and tail of sunned spine, and light soiling to cloth. All edges gilt. Front hinge a touch tender; binding remains quite firm and sound. Heavy foxing to preliminaries, pages otherwise clean and unmarked. Illustrated throughout in 8 color plates and ninety wood engravings. Codice articolo 16567

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Titolo: Field Flowers: A Handy-Book for the Rambling...
Casa editrice: Groomsbridge and Sons, London
Data di pubblicazione: 1888
Legatura: Hardcover
Condizione: Very good
autografato: Signed