Old Garden Manuals - mostly Victorian, bound in decorated cloth and small 8vo, includes: Hibberd's The Amateur's Kitchen Garden, 1877; Hibberd's Rustic Adornments, 1857; Glenny's Handbook of the Flower Garden and Greenhouse, 3rd edition, 1857; Mrs Loudon's The Ladies Companion to the Flower Garden, 7th edition, 1858; Hibberd's The Amateurs Greenhouse and Conservatory, new edition, 1894, together with 11 others Estimate £160-200 Hibberd's Kitchen - col. plates etc, gilt decorated cloth, good but lacks front free endpaper Hibberd's Rustic - col. title and other plates, etc. gilt pictorial cloth, spine lightly faded, very good and rather 'superior' to others Glenny - frontis, gilt decorated cloth, upper cover lightly discoloured otherwise good Mrs Loudon -col. frontis etc, gilt pictorial cloth, good copy Hibberd's Greenhouse - col. frontis, col. pictorial cloth, good copy, others include Geo.W. Johnson's The Cottage Gardener's Dictionary, 5th edition, 1860, engr. illus and gilt decorated cloth, in rather larger 8vo format to the others.
Old Garden Manuals - mostly Victorian, bound in decorated cloth and small 8vo, includes: Hibberd's The Amateur's Kitchen Garden, 1877; Hibberd's Rustic Adornments, 1857; Glenny's Handbook of the Flower Garden and Greenhouse, 3rd edition, 1857; Mrs Loudon's The Ladies Companion to the Flower Garden, 7th edition, 1858; Hibberd's The Amateurs Greenhouse and Conservatory, new edition, 1894, together with 11 others Estimate £160-200 Hibberd's Kitchen - col. plates etc, gilt decorated cloth, good but lacks front free endpaper Hibberd's Rustic - col. title and other plates, etc. gilt pictorial cloth, spine lightly faded, very good and rather 'superior' to others Glenny - frontis, gilt decorated cloth, upper cover lightly discoloured otherwise good Mrs Loudon -col. frontis etc, gilt pictorial cloth, good copy Hibberd's Greenhouse - col. frontis, col. pictorial cloth, good copy, others include Geo.W. Johnson's The Cottage Gardener's Dictionary, 5th edition, 1860, engr. illus and gilt decorated cloth, in rather larger 8vo format to the others.
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