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Gardening Monographs . 1st. Ed. Pub. Herbert Jenkins. 1930. pp.108 with 54 fine plates. Folio. Hardback. Some scattered foxing o/w. contents are in fine condition. In original green cloth, showing some rubbing to bottom edge of boards, o/w. in thor. vg. condition. A thor. vg. copy of this seminal work on Tulips. An important and attractive work on tulips, with detailed descriptions of each species sitting alongside notes on cultivation.

London: Herbert Jenkins Ltd. VG: in very good condition with rubbed and darkened dust jacket. 1930. First Edition. Green hardback cloth cover. 390mm x 290mm (15" x 11"). 108pp. 53 colour plates. Heavy item - shipping supplement may apply for overseas. .

London: Herbert Jenkins Limited, 1930. First edition. Cloth. Good/Very Good. 15.5" by 11.5". E. Katherine Dykes. The first edition of this beautiful and vividly illustrated work on tulips and their cultivation, complete with fifty-four colour plates. The first edition of this work.In the original unclipped dust wrapper.A seminal work on tulips, looking at different breeds and hybrids of the beautiful flower species, with interesting notes on their cultivation.Illustrated with fifty-four vivid colour plates.By the amateur botanist William Rickatson Dykes, who was an expert on iris breeding, and had planted over 30,000 tulip bulbs in his home garden at Sutton Green.Illustrated by the author's wife, Elsie Katherine Dykes.With an introduction by Sir A. Daniel Hall. Collated, complete. In the original publisher's cloth binding, in the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, smart. Light bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities. A few light marks to the boards and spine, a… Read More

London: Herbert Jenkins, 1930. First edition, folio, pp. 108; 54 color plates, printed on dull, slightly textured paper after paintings by E. Katherine Dykes, the authorís wife, each showing one or two tulips with leaves; very good copy in original green cloth, gilt lettering on spine, t.e.g, with most of the original dust-jacket. Published posthumously, this work is compiled of Dykes' notes, organized by his wife after his death.