London: Victoria and Paradise Nurseries. Fair with no dust jacket. 1894. Hardcover. Lacking one preliminary leaf between the title page and the contents page. Amateur cloth tape repairs to joints and along ends of spine. Text block split in middle. Loss of cloth up to 3/4" along edges of corners of boards. Binding shaky. Several gatherings nearly detached. A good working copy. ; xix, 796 + plates + advertisements. Illustrated green cloth boards. All page edges gilt. Seventh edition, enlarged and revised to the present time by Henry Williams. "The cultivation of Orchidaceous plants is no longer exclusively the privledge of the few, now that their nature and requirements are better understood than was the case in former years." - from the introduction.; 8vo .
The Orchid Grower's Manual: Containing Descriptions of Upwards of Nine Hundred and Thirty Species and Varieties of Orchidaceous Plants: Together With Notices of Their Times of Flowering, and Most Approved Modes of Treatment: Also, Plain and Practical...
Benjamin Samuel Williams
The Orchid Grower's Manual: Containing Descriptions of Upwards of Nine Hundred and Thirty Species and Varieties of Orchidaceous Plants: Together With Notices of Their Times of Flowering, and Most Approved Modes of Treatment: Also, Plain and Practical...
Benjamin Samuel Williams
Publisher: Published at Victoria and Paradise nurseries, Upper Holloway, London;...
Date published: 1877
Format: Hardcover
[Orchidology] Bound in publisher's green cloth, with gilt orchid on front. Hardcover. Gutter cracked. A few signatures sprung. xi, 336 pages, 43 unnumbered leaves of plates (many folded): color frontispiece; 20 cm. Benjamin Samuel Williams was an English orchidologist and nurseryman. According to William Glikbarg "Williams provided the stimulus that made orchid growing possible for the average gardener."
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