Description and condition:

Green cloth hardback, gilt spine titles, dustcover, folio, 96pp, 33 full-colour plates.

Good to very good copy with lightly rubbed board edges, remnants of a black ink stamp along outer bottom page edges, nice clean pages throughout. In good dustcover with light edgewear and uneven darkening, now in protective cover.

Contents:

Covers the history of the 33 illustrated varieties and an expert section on growing and propagation. A sort after work, with beautiful full-page illustrations by Marjorie Blamey.