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A HISTORY OF ENGLISH GARDENING, CHRONOLOGICAL, BIOGRAPHICAL, LITERARY, AND CRITICAL. TRACING THE PROGRESS OF THE ART IN THIS COUNTRY FROM THE INVASION OF THE ROMANS TO THE PRESENT TIME
by Johnson, George W
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London, England: Baldwin & Cradock, and Longman & Co.; H.& W. Wright; J. Ridgway; H. Vicks, 1829. Leather-bound. Good Plus. Small quarto. In Brown, original temporary boards, with later, light-brown morocco wraparound spine. Five raised bands ruled in horizontal gilt at each. Contrasting spine label, deep red, with gilt lettering, and year (1829) to lower spine. Foxing to edges, first 35 pp. and 10 pp. in the rear. 444 pp. (Last page detached but present).
Essentially an annotated bibliography of the field. Full index. Intended additions and Errata pages at rear. *Charles Robert Leslie Fletcher (1857-1934)was a well known English historian and author, who tutored in Magdalen College at Oxford. "Fletcher's controversial views on foreigners and democracy. Fletcher said democracy was still on trial in Britain, and claimed that the King would be obliged to dismiss any government that tried to reduce the size of the Royal Navy or surrendered India or the colonies" (.
Essentially an annotated bibliography of the field. Full index. Intended additions and Errata pages at rear. *Charles Robert Leslie Fletcher (1857-1934)was a well known English historian and author, who tutored in Magdalen College at Oxford. "Fletcher's controversial views on foreigners and democracy. Fletcher said democracy was still on trial in Britain, and claimed that the King would be obliged to dismiss any government that tried to reduce the size of the Royal Navy or surrendered India or the colonies" (.
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- Title
- A HISTORY OF ENGLISH GARDENING, CHRONOLOGICAL, BIOGRAPHICAL, LITERARY, AND CRITICAL. TRACING THE PROGRESS OF THE ART IN THIS COUNTRY FROM THE INVASION OF THE ROMANS TO THE PRESENT TIME
- Author
- Johnson, George W
- Format/Binding
- Leather-bound
- Book Condition
- Used - Good Plus
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Baldwin & Cradock, and Longman & Co.; H.& W. Wright; J. Ridgway; H. Vicks
- Place of Publication
- London, England
- Date Published
- 1829
- Keywords
- Antiquarian Gardening, Botany
- Bookseller catalogs
- gardening;
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