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James Ridgway, 1821. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1821. No Edition Remarks. 528 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth. Ex Libris plate to front pastedown, with tanned mark to front free endpaper. Severe cracking to hinges causing boards to be loose. Rear board and last couple of pages almost detached from text block. Page 505 is detached but still present. Cracking to gutters, causing a few pages throughout to be loose. Pages are lightly tanned and foxed throughout, heavier to endpapers and pastedowns. Thumb-marking present throughout. Light scuffing to text-block edges. Boards have heavy edge wear with bumping to corners and rub wear all over. Crushing to spine ends with small splits and fraying to cloth. Heavy splits to spine joints, causing spine strip to be loose. Notable tanning to spine and edges. Scuffing and light marking overall. Small white sticker to rear board. Some rubbed brown marks to surfaces, with small white stain to front board.

London, James Ridgway, 1821, First edition. . Contemporary half green morocco, gilt spine title lettering and decorations, marbled boards, slight shelfwear, lightly foxed on some leaves, else near fine, sound and tight volume. . 8vo [21 x 12 cm]; [iv], 528 pp. . This book had some later editions, one under the name 'A Hothouse and Greenhouse Manual, Or Botanical Cultivator'. The book is divided into sections on stove plants, greenhouse plants, hardy trees and shrubs, hardy herbaceous plants and annual and biennials, including alphabetical listings of plants and descriptions. The author also wrote Hortus Suburbanus Londinensis, Flora Australasica and Geraniaceµ. Massachusetts Horticultural Society p. 306 refers to later edition. A picture of this book is available on request by email.

London: James Ridgway, 1821. Octavo, pp (ii), 528, slight age-toning but otherwise surprisingly clean internally, bound in a recent brown quarter calf and cloth, very slightly rubbed. Later editions of the book were published under the title 'A Hothouse and Greenhouse Manual, Or Botanical Cultivator', but this first edition is very scarce. [Sweet was a prominent botanist and gardener of his day. He published both expensive colour plate works and also practical manuals such as this. This is one of the earliest books to contain so much specific information on propagation.]. First Edition. Quarter calf and cloth. Very Good.