Gardening

[Dundas], Ontario, Canada:: Aliquando Press,, 2002.. Edition of 70. 28. x 17 cm.; 24 pages. Five wood engravings by Wesley W. Bates. Text adapted by William Rueter. Printed letterpress with Nephi Medieval type and Tell Text 5 display, with title lettering by the printer. Printed on Hahnemühle Archive paper.  Copies 1 to 10 signed by the artists, with an extra suite of signed prints enclosed in an olive folder and bound in quarter stained Tyvek with spine label. The boards covered in William Morris' 'Willow Boughs' fabric, with mustard cloth slipcase. Copies 11 to 70 bound in quarter stained Tyvek with spine label and yellow/green shibori paper-covered boards with grosgrain ribbon; with flax Canal paper portfolio. This is a standard copy. One of Boccaccio's most pertinent (and impertinent) stories from The Decameron: Nuns delighting in pleasures of the flesh. Will Rueter, The Aliquando Century: "On the way back from a printing conference, Wesley Bates… Read More

Simkin and Marshall; Groombridge & Sons, [1825-1850] Two Parts bound in one volume. Small quarto. Engraved half title, Title page Part I, xvi, 240pp; Title page Part II, 13, 144pp. 3066 woodcuts. Contemporary half morocco, gilt, raised bands to spine. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Corners rubbed. Index to Part II and pp141-144 originally published in smaller state (8vo), expertly relaid to quarto. Comprehensively cataloguing the origins, date of introduction and British gardens and their owners of foreign introductions during the golden age of plant-hunting, the Floral Register was the resource for all newly introduced plants.
Benjamin Maund (1790-1864) botanist and horticulturist, "he prospered as a bookseller, stationer, printer, bookbinder, publisher, and chemist in a combination normal for the time". He experimented with seeds and plants introduced from around the world and particularly with varieties of wheat. Fellow of the Linnean Society. ODNB.
Provenance
From the library of Enid Lucy… Read More

London & Toronto, J. M. Dent; New York, E- P. Dutton & Co., 1928. First English language edition.Very well Illustrated throughout with 600 black-and-white illustrations, drawings and photographs. Dark Blue cloth covers with Gilt Peacock and Fountain Designs to fronts and spines. Top page edges Dark Green. Vol 1, 459 Pages and Vol 2, 486. 11" Tall. No inscriptions.The Fascinating History of Garden Design. Volume 1 starts with Ancient Egypt, includes Ancient Greece & Rome and goes up to the Renaissance Period. Volume 2 continues with the Renaissance, includes Louis XIV and the Masterpiece of Versailles, China and Japan, then the English Landscape Garden with Capability Brown, Kent etc, next the 19th C. and finally America and Canada. For larger or multi-volume items additional shipping charges may be necessary.

London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, 1819. {the title continues: "to which is now added the culture of the cucumber; the plan of a lately invented brick frame for forcing fruits, flowers and esculent vegetables, without the influence of fire-heat".}. Second edition. Illustrated with one folding plate (a plan of a forcing frame), small octavo, pp xxxvi, 428, + errata leaf, edges untrimmed, original boards, rubbed and a little worn, recently re-backed with paper spine and label. There is offsetting from the plate to the opposite page of text and some foxing to the plate and occasionally throughout the book, but this is not heavy. The section on vine cultivation has seven pages on which some instructions have been underlined in ink, but this has been done so neatly that it almost looks as though it it part of the printing. Bound in at the front is a 12 page bookseller's catalogue. This is an uncut and unpressed copy, and as close to its original state is is likely to be found. A… Read More

NEW YORK: J. C. RIKER, 1848 RARE BOOK, NICE LOOKING DARK BROWN. GOLD DESIGN FRONT AND SPINE. GOLD TRIM ON PAGE EDGES. AN INSCRIPTION GIVING THE BOOK TO SOMEONE IN 1853 IN FRONT. BEAUTIFUL PLATES OF FLOWERS THROUGHOUT. NICE INTRODUCTION, FLOWER DETAIL, BOTANY AND FLORAL DICTIONARY. TIGHT AND CLEAN WITH LIGHT FOXING. FOR THE LOVER OF FLOWERS. Frances Sargent Osgood (née Locke; June 18, 1811 May 12, 1850) was an American poet and one of the most popular women writers during her time. Nicknamed "Fanny", she was also famous for her exchange of romantic poems with Edgar Allan Poe. Frances Sargent Locke was born in Boston, Massachusetts to Joseph Locke, a wealthy merchant, and his second wife, Mary Ingersoll Foster. Her father's first wife, Martha Ingersoll, was the sister of Mary, his second wife. Mary was also the widow of Benjamin Foster, by whom she had two children: William Vincent Foster and Anna Maria Wells, who would also become a published poet and close associate of Frances.… Read More

London: H. Slater, F. Noble (et al), 1741. Small slim octavo, pp 58, lacking a lower corner of the title page with slight loss of the printers' names, an early repair and paper restoration, the title page very marked and age-toned, some foxing and soiling throughout but still tight and firm, bound fairly recently in cloth-backed boards, very slightly worn and marked. RARE. . Cloth-backed boards. Good.

Royal Exotic Nursery, Chelsea: Printed for Private Circulation, 1896. With signed presentation inscription to J. Hollingsworth (head gardener at Tredegar Park followed by Margam Park]. Illustrated with a large folding map frontispiece (with, as usual, tears and creases at the upper join, now neatly repaired), nine large full-page plates on heavy card. many small text images from photographs, quarto, pp 219, slight age-toning and marking, some inner joints rather cracked and weak, the last third of the book has rather damp-wrinkled pages, with light staining on the last few pages, original decorated cloth with paper inlay, bevelled edges, a bit rubbed and marked, the spine dull and age-toned andpulled at the head and tail, the upper cover slightly unevenly age-toned. [In October 1891 Veitch embarked on a tour of inspection of the great Botanic and Public Gardens maintained by governments in various countries as well as visiting many private horticultural establishments, to decide whether the Veitch… Read More

Edinburgh: Archibald Constable & Co Ltd, 1810. Firtst edition. Octavo, pp xxiv, 648, a very fine clean wide-margined copy, untrimmed and unpressed, in original boards with original spine label; the boards are slightly rubbed and marked, with the corners a little worn, the spine slightly worn with the joints chipped, but no weakness. Occasional light foxing and age-toning. [Walter Nicol (1769 - 1811) was a Scottish garden and hothouse designer, who wrote several books on practical horticulture. He was born in Niddrie. He was employed at a number of estates in Scotland and improved the design and layout of gardens and glasshouses. Nicol is in particular responsible for the walled garden layout at Dalhousie Castle in Midlothian."His works, which were of a very high standard, became exceedingly popular" - Blanche Henrey 1173, listing only the Rothamsted copy.]. First Edition. Boards. Very Good.

Leningrad [1840 - 1843]. RARE. Three volumes, small quarto, pp 112, [144], 189, some foxing throughout, wide-margined copies, uncut and partially unopened, simply bound in brown paper, parts II & III still have the original lower cover. C.E. Hubbard's copy. [Hubbard was the dean of the British agrostologists, with an encyclopedic knowledge of the world's grasses. He did not follow the increasingly popular view of recognizing four to six subfamilies by listing only two (Festucoideae and Panicoideae) and 27 tribes. Trinius prepared a summary of grass classification and synonymy, in which he listed 2457 species, along with their author and place of publication - this was a cornerstone of modern grass taxonomy.]. First Edition. Paperback. Good.

London: Longman, Orme, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1841. First edition. Large octavo, illustrated with seven engraved plates and and a engraved portrait frontispiece, pp xii, 379, rather used and thumbed internally and becoming rather weak, the front and rear hinges very cracked and loose, the title page detached, original cloth rather worn and blotched. The Syon Gardens copy, with their stamps throughout. RARE. [The extensive sketch of his life was written by his daughter. Knight was the brother of Payne Knight, and the second President of the Royal Horticultural Society. Attention was first called to his work in 1795 by the publication of the results of his research into the propagation of fruit trees and the diseases prevalent among them. He used 10,000 acres (4,000 ha) of land he inherited to conduct breeding of plants including strawberries, cabbages and peas and built an extensive greenhouse. Knight performed basic physiological experiments on plants, which work had been performed before only… Read More

Timber Press, 1976. Used - Fair condition. Binding is tight and interior is clean except for staining in the upper right on pgs 87-124. Covers show shelf and handling wear as well as staining, discoloration, and foxing. A solid, serviceable copy. Photo is of the copy we have here at Barbed Wire Books.

London & Edinburgh: Printed for the Editor, and sold by Longman & Co, and A. & C. Black, 1840. With an engraved portrait frontispiece, many line illustrations throughout the text, octavo, pp xxxii,619, slightly age-toned and with the very occasional mark, the frontispiece is foxed and its verso rather marked, the endpapers foxed, the title page slightly browned, otherwise firm and tight internally, black half calf and marbled boards, rubbed and a little worn, but no weakness. . New Edition. Half-Leather. Good.

The Botanic Garden, Lambeth-Marsh: Published by the author, 1788. Octavo, pp 33,(i) + eight hand coloured engraved plates with slight age-toning, the last twoplates with slight foxing also, each plate has a descriptive explantikon page opposite, twentieth century boards with cloth spine, the upper cover a little faded but otherwise very good. RARE. [Designed to illustrat a series of public lectures given by Curtis at his Botanic Garden, only two parts, each of four plates, were ever published. The garden was in Lambeth Marsh, near to what is now Waterloo Station.]]. First Edition. Cloth-backed boards. Good.

Satin book cover like new - pages clean, bright and unmarked – spine like new.
Illustrated slipcase near new, light shelf wear.
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The extraordinary early nineteenth century gardens of Josephine Bonaparte at Malmaison are revealed in this lavish publication. One hundred and twenty colored stipple engravings depict a dazzling array of exotic plants from around the world, while the text tells the fascinating story of how the first wife of Napoleon I came to transform a modest estate on the outskirts of Paris into a botanical and zoological garden to rival the great Jardin des Plantes itself.
Keen to have these biological rarities recorded in lifelike watercolor, Josephine engaged the foremost plant illustrator of the day, Pierre-Joseph Redoute, to paint 120 of them on fine parchment, and commissioned Etienne-Pierre Ventenat, librarian of the Pantheon in Paris, to write accompanying plant… Read More

London: Published by W. Bulmer and Co. (et al), 1803. Third Edition . Leather Bound. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Octavos. xxxii, 408, [7]; xx, 454, [6] pages. Hardcovers bound in early full calf with raised bands and with gilt designs on the spine. Spine titles read "Marshall on Planting" and with the 1803 date stamped in gilt at the foot. The leather boards are ruled in gilt and have wide decorative rolls in blind. The bindings show light to moderate wear and bumping but are quite sound. Several brief stains from early leather treatments. Hinges a bit rubbed on Volume I and with a little splitting at the bottom of the rear hinge on Volume II. The front pastedown in Volume II has a 19th century bookplate of "George Strode , Esq. / Newham Park, Co. Devon." No bookplate in Volume I. The text is quite clean, and the paper has a faint bluish hue. NOT an illustrated work. Overall a very attractive set.