Gardening from Foster Books - Stephen Foster, ABA, ILAB, PBFA

Oxford: Clarendon Press 1955. 8vo. 6 volumes. Dark blue cloth in printed and unclipped jackets. Blind-stamped Oxford crest to boards and gilt lettering to spines. Chipping, spotting and sunning to jackets, with short tears. Slight bumping to extremities of books. All internally clean. Evelyn's diaires form a highly authoritative source for scholars of late 17th century England, now in a… Read more about this item

London: Jonathan Cape 1933. 8vo.Illustrated. 4th impression. 285 pp. Deluxe publisher's leather with gilt lettering and decoration; illustrated endpapers. Rubbing to extremities and some foxing, mostly at prelims. With illustrations by Rex Whistler. . Very Good. Publisher's Leather. 4th Impression. 1933.

London: The Folio Society 2011. 8vo. xiv., 290 pp. Shrink-wrapped. As this is shrink-wrapped, we have not determined which printing this is, but it was printed twice in 2011. . As New. Hardcover. 2011.

London: London Parks & Gardens Trust 2018. 4to. [4], 116 pp. Illustrated softcover. Light curling to corners. Internally clean. Includes chapters by a range of authors on subjects such as Kenwood, Russell Square, Bloomsbury Square and Haling Park. 9781527220690 . Very Good. Softcover. 2018.

London: Relfe and Fletcher 1838. 8vo. 175 pp., with a hand coloured lithographic additional title, and 2 plain lithographic plates. Blind stamped original cloth with gilt lettering to spine has some minor bumping and to extremities. . Near Fine. Original Cloth - Gilt Lettered. 1838.

London: MAcmillan and Co 1871. 8vo. First Editions. 2 volumes. [v], 488; 489-981, [3] pp. Full green cloth with gilt lettering to spines. Marks to boards with wear to spine ends and corners. Ink names and stamps to prelims, which are foxed, otherwise internally clean. Colour frontis and black & white diagram illustrations throughout. . Very Good. Gilt Lettered Cloth.… Read more about this item

London: B. T. Batsford 1901; 1906. Large 4to. First Edition. Original publisher's light green cloth, with floral gilt stamped decoration and lettering to boards and spine. Marks to boards and rubbing to board edges and spine. Slight yellowing to pages. The first series of 40 beautiful pochoir colour plates of art deco flowers, made into a portfolio format, along with… Read more about this item

London: The Harvill Press 1999. Oblong 8vo. First Edition. 208 pp. Blue hardcover with paper title label to front board and gilt lettering to spine. Minimal marks to boards; internally clean and bright, binding firm. Colour photographs throughout by Stephen Spender and Jean-Marie del Moral. 1860465145 . Very Good. Cloth. First Edition. 1999.

London: John E. Sowerby 1856. Small 8vo.Illustrated. First Edition. iv, 59 pp. Brown cloth with blind-stamped decoration and gilt lettering to boards; recent spine. Some marking and slight fading to parts of the boards, light wear to corners; spine fresh and firm. Light spots throughout, not affecting plates. Stamp to front pastedown and once internally. Illustrated with 28 hand-coloured plates.… Read more about this item

London: Country Life Ltd 1937. 8vo. Very scarce. Unpaginated. Red cloth spine with pictorial boards. Red cloth spine over pictorial boards; illustrated endpapers. Small hole in cloth of spine; board edges yellowed, as are all the page edges within - original colour is light blue - but otherwise very clean. Designed and with illustrations throughout by Edward Bawden, with weekly… Read more about this item

London: Country Life Limited 1923. 4to.Magazine / Journal. viii, 376 pp., Green cloth binding with blindstamped boards and gilt lettered spine. Some sunning to the spine and marks to the boards. Slight wear to the extremities. Some wear to the hinges with webbing visible, otherwise binding firm. Internally clean and illustrated throughout in black and white. This is a heavy… Read more about this item

Madeira: Francisco Ribeiro. Large 8vo. Portuguese, English, French and German text. 280 pp. Colour pictorial boards. A few marks and scratches to boards and edges. Internally clean. 159 colour photographs of the flowers of Madeira. . Very Good. Illustrated Boards.

London: William Blackwood and Sons 1867. 8vo. ciii, 79, [39]pp. Fifth Edition, Enlarged. Green cloth binding with gilt lettered front board. Some wear and loss to the spine and slight rubbing to the boards. Binding slightly shaken with wear to the front hinge and webbing visible. Light scattered spotting, with occasional pencil marks and pencil inscription to the front board.… Read more about this item

London and Glasgow: Blackie & Son, Limited (1931). Illustrated. Unpaginated. Decorative boards with tipped on colour illustration in illustrated jacket. Illustrated throughout with 24 colour plates. Jacket marked with a few tears to edges (protected by acetate now). Boards clean and bright, binding firm. Internal spotting throughout, not affecting plates. Owner's name to verso of ffep., dated 1931. . Very… Read more about this item

London, Paris & New York: 'The Studio' Ltd. 1911. 4to.Illustrated. 2 volumes bound in 1. xxxviii + plates; x, 30 + plates. Half black morocco with gilt lettering to the spine and marbled boards. Endpapers marbled and top edge gilt. Some rubbing to the edges and corners, with loss to the marbling on the front board. Damp stain to the… Read more about this item

London, Paris & New York: Offices of "The Studio" 1907, 1908. 4to.Illustrated. 2 volumes bound in 1. xxxviii + 136 plates; x, 120 + plates. Half black morocco with marbled boards and gilt lettering to the spine. Endpapers marbled and top edge gilt. With plates and illustrations throughout. Light rubbing to the binding and some very minor foxing to leaves.… Read more about this item

London: Cassell and Company, Limited 1915. Large 8vo.Illustrated. First Editions. 2 volumes. vii, 576; v, 577-1136 pp. Dark green half morocco over lighter green boards, with raised bands, gilt stamped floral decorations to spine; top edge gilt. Bound by Bickers. Illustrated with 24 coloured plates and throughout with 'many hundreds' of photographs and sketches. Bindings generally fresh and clean, with… Read more about this item

London, United Kingdom: Constable 1989. Small 4to. xx., 459 pp. Bright and unmarked yellow cloth binding with gilding to the spine. Illustrated dust jacket, unclipped. Slight wear to spine and fading to back panel but overall very good condition. Profusely illustrated throughout with black and white photographs and drawings. 0094593507 . Very Good. Hardcover. second Edition Reprint. 1989.

London: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd. 1935. 8vo.Illustrated. First Edition. 229 pp. Publisher's green deluxe leather binding, with gilt lettering and decoration to boards and spine; top edge gilt, deckle edges. Illustrated with photo plates and maps. Boards a little rubbed and marked, especially at corners and head of spine. Apart from minor foxing to endpapers, internally very clean.… Read more about this item

London: Michael Joseph 1950. 8vo.Illustrated. 155 pp. First edition. Publisher's green cloth in pictorial dust wrapper. Some rubbing and creasing to the jacket extremities, otherwise bright. Slight marks to the tail of the boards. Internally fresh and bright, with illustrations and jacket design by John Minton. . Very Good. Cloth. First Edition. 1950.