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Cassell and Company Ltd, 1922. Hardcover. Good. 1922. Reprint. 287 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth with gilt lettering. B&W and colour photographs throughout. Clean pages. Notable foxing and tanning to endpapers and page edges. Some gutter cracking. Mild wear and bumping to spine, board edges and corners, with scuffing, staining and marking to boards. Minor tanning to spine, with crushing to spine ends.

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Cassell & Company Ltd., 1916. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1916. Reprinted. 287 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth with decorations. Black and white photographic plates and colour photographic tipped-in plates throughout. Slight cracking to hinges, with exposed netting, pages remain attached. Pages and plates have some tanning and foxing throughout. Small tears to some page edges, text remains unaffected. Frontis tissue guard torn and creased. Occasional minor pencil marginalia. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Light tanning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends.

GB: Cassell, 1922. Highly ornate green cloth. Book is in very good minus condition with minor but noticeable signs of wear and/or age. DW has little loss but is rather dust marked and has some internal magic tape repair. . Reprint. Hardback. VG-/G++ DW.

Hardback. New.

New York : Funk and Wagnalls Company ; [London : Printed by Cassell & Company, Limited, La Belle Sauvage], [1920], 1920. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 4th Edition. [New and rev. (4th) ed.] ; x, 287 p., [28] leaves of plates : ill. (some col.), plans ; 21 cm. ; LC: SB411 ; OCLC: 5144202 ; eight direct colour photographs by H. Essenhigh Corke and forty half-tone plates ; green cloth with red, dark green and gold lettering and designs ; tipped-in color plates ; tear to front ep ; foxing ; bookseller's store label (Paul Elder & Co., San Francisco) on back ep ; foxing ; slight wear to covers ; spine sunned ; volume originally uncut, shows evidence of previous owner's opening ; VG.

Harrisburg, Pa. : American Rose Society, 1927, 1927. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. <not speci]fied>. 232, xxv pp. ; illustrated, 19 photographic plates, 3 in color ; 21 cm. ; John Horace McFarland (1859-1948) was an American master printer and horticulturist. Throughout his career, he advocated for civic beautification, and he became a leader in the conservation movement of the early twentieth century. These early experiences instilled the passion for horticultural beauty and the business expertise that distinguished him personally and professionally. He eventually purchased his father's press. Combining the skills learned from these early experiences, he established a successful printing company of his own. He founded the J. Horace McFarland Company/Mount Pleasant Press, specializing in seed catalogs and nursery trade publications. Over the course of his lifetime, McFarland wrote and lectured extensively on horticulture, printing methods, and civic improvement. McFarland was a prominent… Read More

Harrisburg, PA : American Rose Society, 1917., 1917. Book. Good. Hardcover. 161, xxv pp. ; green and red cloth with designs ; no dustjacket ; Contents: The progress of the American Rose Society / S S Pennock -- The use of the rose in the landscape / Wilhelm Miller -- The literature of the rose -- The rose in the "Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture" / L H Bailey -- Francis Parkman on roses / M N Baker -- The practical book of outdoor rose-growing / J Horace McFarland -- The oldest rose-garden in the United States -- The American rose advance / J Horace McFarland -- Roses worth while for everybody / George C Thomas, Jr -- Selections from recent garden roses / Aaron Ward -- Rose bloom records at Egandale / W C Egan -- E G Hill's forthcoming roses / Sarah A Hill -- The new American roses of 1917 / J Horace McFarland -- The basis of merit in roses / Jesse A Currey -- Methods of rose-growing / J Horace McFarland -- Propagation by budding / Robert Huey -- The trenching method of rose… Read More