Cassell's Popular Gardening
editor: D T Fish (Scottish, b.1824, d.1901); publisher: Cassell, Petter and Galpin (English, estab. 1855);
circa 1887
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Description
book, Cassell's Popular Gardening, Vol I In original green binding with gilt and black decoration of daisy-type flower. Gilt titles and decoration on spine, Bevelled boards. Tissue guarded chromolithograph frontis with colours bright, showing a Portion of the Rockery at the Royal Horticultureal Society Gardens, Chiswick
Full green cloth, ruled borders and flower illustration in gilt and black with title in gilt on the front board, gilt lettering and flower illustrations in gilt and black on the spine, publisher's device inside black ruled border surrounded by flower illustration on the rear board, bevelled boards, slate grey endpapers, with a chromolithographic frontispiece featuring different kinds of flowers, all with tissue guards, black-and-white wood engravings of various plants throughout each volume; octavo size (9" by 6.75") pagination: Volume I: [i-iv] [1] 2-380 [381-390]
Full green cloth, ruled borders and flower illustration in gilt and black with title in gilt on the front board, gilt lettering and flower illustrations in gilt and black on the spine, publisher's device inside black ruled border surrounded by flower illustration on the rear board, bevelled boards, slate grey endpapers, with a chromolithographic frontispiece featuring different kinds of flowers, all with tissue guards, black-and-white wood engravings of various plants throughout each volume; octavo size (9" by 6.75") pagination: Volume I: [i-iv] [1] 2-380 [381-390]
Maker and role
editor: D T Fish (Scottish, b.1824, d.1901)
publisher: Cassell, Petter and Galpin (English, estab. 1855)
publisher: Cassell, Petter and Galpin (English, estab. 1855)
Production place
London, England
Production date
circa 1887
Media description
print on paper
Measurements
9" by 6.75"
Project credit line
This digital record has been made available on TJC Collection Online through a significant donation from the OPENING DOORS fund, the generous support of The Friends of The Johnston Collection, and Digitisation Champion Christine Bell.
Accession number
TRP2016.165
TJC reference number
2436
