The Field, The Garden And The Woodland Or Interesting Facts Respecting Flowers And Plants In General, Designed For The Young

Published by Charles Knight & Co, London, UK. Date: 1841. Second edition. Size: 10.7cm x 14.8cm. pp. vii + 336 + 4 pp ads. Original green cloth, richly gilt to the spine. All edges gilt. Hand-coloured frontispiece. Illustrated with wood-engravings throughout. An excellent guide for the young, with sections on gardens in India, plants of America, lime trees and sensitive plants. From the library at Holker Hall. Neat ink inscription of ‘Cavendish from his most affectionate grandmama, C’. Binding nice and tight and exceptionally bright and clean. Some foxing to the title page and frontispiece else pages and wood-engravings very nice and clean. A very near fine copy. Scarce in this condition.