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Window gardening for town and country. Compiled chiefly for the use of the working classes.
Author
Meikle, Andrew
Title
Window gardening for town and country. Compiled chiefly for the use of the working classes.
Object type Book binding
Description
iv,104p. With twenty seven pages of publisher's titles bound at the end. Book Size 110x168x12mm. Yellow paper over boards. The lower cover has an advertisement for (a garden centre) E. G. Henderson & Son. Publisher's titles are printed on the upper and lower endpapers and pastedowns. The upper cover features a young lady at an open window, watering (tulip-like) plants on the windowsill, with a small watering can. In the window panes on the upper half of the cover, the words: "Window Gardening" are printed. Below the window, a repeating pattern of stylised honeysuckle plants is printed. At the tail of the cover the imprint: "George Routledge & Co." is printed in black. On the spine, the title words: "Window Gardening" are printed along its length. Reference:
Date 1870
date QS:P571,+1870-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Dimensions 110 × 16 × 12 mm (4.33 × 0.62 × 0.47 in)
British Library
Accession number
C188a564
Place of creation London: George Routledge and Sons, The Broadway, Ludgate
References The Library of the late Robin de Beaumont. Bonhams Auction Catalogue [online sale of 31 January 2024.] lot 189.
Source/Photographer British Library
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