Gardening.- Loudon (Jane Webb) The Ladies' Flower-Garden of Ornamental

Gardening.- Loudon (Mrs. [Jane Webb]) The Ladies' Flower-Garden of Ornamental Greenhouse Plants, first edition, 42 hand-coloured engraved plates, tissue guards, the odd spot throughout, some plates coming loose, foxed to endpapers and title, title splitting at gutter, bookplate, contemporary half morocco, rubbed to spine and extremities, marks to boards, hinges strained, 8vo, William Smith, 1848. *** Published as part of The Ladies' Flower-Garden series between 1840 and 1848. The pioneering manuals revolutionized amateur horticulture and established gardening as an accessible, popular hobby for Victorian women.

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