The Cottage Gardener: A Practical Guide In Every Department Of Horticulture And Rural And Domestic Economy Volume V & Vi George W. Johnson Garden

1851. No Edition Remarks. Unpaginated. No dust jacket. Fully bound in brown leather with five raised spine bands and gilt. Two volumes, separately paginated, bound together. Occasional in text illustrations. Dual column text per page. Marbled endpapers. Pages are moderately tanned and foxed throughout, heavier at end-papers, paste-downs and text-block edges. Staining to pages throughout. Front free end paper is partially detached at gutter. Damp stained top fore edge from prelims to page 24. Pencil marks to rear end paper. Previous owner's. Inscriptions and loss to free end paper and title page. Further damp staining to rear free end paper and paste down. Heavy cracking to hinges with exposed binding materials. Boards have heavy edge-wear with bumping to corners, crushing to spine ends and rub wear all over. Peeling and loss to. Leather. Joints are split with boards starting to become detached. Gilt if darkened and difficult to read.