Barclay smith kerry l (3 risultati)

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. Condition: Very Good. Stapled softcover booklet with pictorial covers. Bright front cover with minor edge and corner wear; light rubbing and small surface marks to rear cover. Clean, crisp interior pages and secure binding. Bilingual Welsh and English text with floral line drawings, historical engravings, and full-page black-and-white illustrations. Includes a seasonal gardening calendar, contents, introductory material, and acknowledgments. Listing photos show the exact copy included in this sale. A bilingual collection of nineteenth-century Welsh gardening advice, presenting extracts from Victorian household manuals with parallel English translations. The selections document everyday gardening practices in Wales, particularly the cultivation and maintenance of working people's gardens, kitchen gardens, and small domestic spaces. Organized into five sections: The Worker's Garden, The Year's Gardening, The Kitchen Garden, The Healthy Garden, and The Window Garden. The texts include seasonal gardening instructions, practical advice on cultivating vegetables and flowers, and the care and organization of household gardens. A historical record of domestic horticulture and the gardening knowledge available to Welsh households during the Victorian era. Compiled and edited by Kerry L. Barclay-Smith, the booklet draws on two nineteenth-century Welsh publications: Mrs. S. A. Edwards's Coginiaeth a Threfniadaeth Deuluaidd (1889), a household manual written for the wives of Welsh workers, and Thomas Thomas's Llyfr Pawb ar Bob Peth (Everybody's Book on Everything), a popular Welsh reference work covering practical aspects of everyday life. The original Welsh passages appear alongside English translations, preserving examples of Victorian Welsh prose while making the historical material accessible to English-speaking readers. The booklet also includes period engravings from the Henry Jones the Younger Collection at Glynllifon, floral drawings, and illustrations associated with North Wales gardens. Of interest to readers of British garden history, Victorian domestic and working-class life, Welsh cultural heritage, and historical horticultural practices. Crynodeb Cymraeg Casgliad dwyieithog o gyngor garddio o'r bedwaredd ganrif ar bymtheg, gyda darnau o lyfrau Cymraeg Oes Fictoria a chyfieithiadau Saesneg ochr yn ochr â'r testunau gwreiddiol. Mae'r llyfryn yn cynnwys cyfarwyddiadau ar erddi gweithwyr, gwaith garddio drwy'r flwyddyn, gerddi cegin, gerddi iach a garddio mewn ffenestri. Casglwyd a golygwyd y deunydd gan Kerry L. Barclay-Smith o Coginiaeth a Threfniadaeth Deuluaidd gan Mrs. S. A. Edwards a Llyfr Pawb ar Bob Peth gan Thomas Thomas. Mae'r casgliad yn rhoi cipolwg ar arferion garddio, bywyd domestig a hanes cymdeithasol Cymru yn Oes Fictoria, gan gadw enghreifftiau o ryddiaith Gymraeg hanesyddol. Barclay-Smith, Ann; Barwell, Michael G. (illustratore).…

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. Copyright Date: 1992 Octavo, 1992, PP.24. Text Figures (illustratore).

Soft cover. Condizione: Near Fine. Near fine copy. Particularly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and strong. Internally the pages are immaculately clean and complete.