1885 Victorian Gardening Book - The Amateur's ROSE Book by Shirley Hibberd.
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Author : Shirley Hibberd.
Title : The Amateur's Rose Book; Comprising the Cultivation of the Rose in the Open Ground and Under Glass: The Formation of the Rosarium: the Characters of Wild and Garden Roses: the Preparation of the Flowers for Exhibition: the Raising of New Varieties: and the Work of the Rose Garden in Every Season of the Year.
Publisher : London, Groombridge and Sons, 1885.
Language : Text in English.
Size : 8 " X 6 ".
Pages : viii-258 pages.
Binding : Attractive and very good full Victorian decorated cloth binding by Sotheran Sackville St. London Binder (signed on top of the back of the first endpaper) (hinges fine, overall slightly worn, scuffed and soiled, spine faded - as shown) under a protective removable mylar cover.
Content : Very good content (bright and tight, rare foxing and staining - as shown).
Illustrations: Complete with the full color frontispiece and the numerous black&white illustrations.
The book : Rare and attractive edition of this book about Roses. A rare find in this beautiful red binding!
The author: James Shirley Hibberd (1825 – 16 November 1890) was one of the most popular and successful gardening writers of the Victorian era. He was a best-selling editor of three gardening magazines, including Amateur Gardening, the only 19th-century gardening magazine still being published today. He wrote over a dozen books on gardening and several more on natural history and related subjects. He promoted town gardening, aquariums, bee-keeping, vegetarianism, water recycling, environmental conservation and the prevention of cruelty to animals and birds, all before they were taken up as 'causes' in the twentieth century. Most important of all, he taught and promoted amateur gardening, before it was acceptable among the gardening establishment, and helped to found the whole consumer industry in amateur gardening that we have today.