Popular Greenhouse Botany, Containing a Familiar and Technical Description of a Selection of the Exotic Plants Introduced into the Greenhouse
xii, 312pp. Twenty beautiful hand coloured plates called for, 19 present. Red cloth-covered boards with gilt titles and design on spine, blind embossed covers and further gilt design on front. Rubbed spine ends and slightly faded. Corners bumped and showing some shelf wear especially on verso. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. 16vo. Descriptions of plants suitable for raising in an unheated greenhouse, with beautiful, hand-coloured botanical lithographic illustrations.