Cassell's Dictionary of Practical Gardening

Complete in two volumes. Volume I: viii, 480pp, with colour plate frontispiece and nine further similar illustrations, further black and white illustrations in text. Volume II: [ii], 476pp, with colour plate frontispiece and nine further similar, with numerous black and white illustrations in text. Both volumes uniformly bound in strong green cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering and decorations, speckled text block edges (cloth a little rubbed and rounded at spine ends and corners). Free endpapers in both volumes tanned; front free endpaper in volume one partially chapped on volume one; a tad of spotting around straining gutters between endpapers, else internally neat, clean, bright and tight. 4to. Elegant botanical plate illustrations in a comprehensive guide to gardening from the early 20th century.