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Synopsis

Containing full and practical instructions concerning general garden operations, the flower garden, the fruit garden, the kitchen garden, pests of the month, with a monthly calendar of work to be done in the garden throughout the year. [cover title:] beeton's shilling gardening book.

Item Description

8vo. 7 x 4.75 inches. [vi], including advertisements + 252 pp. + 32 pp. publisher's list. Bound in original green cloth with black titles. Advertisement endpapers. Some wear to extremities, including corners and head of spine. foxing of fore edge, but otherwise a very good copy. Early Amateur Gardener inscription on front pastedown. Illustrated by engraved text figures. Decorated by contents pages and headpiece vignettes and by publisher's device on title page. One of the enterprises of the publisher, Samuel Orchart Beeton (1831-78), who also issued The Englishwoman's Domestic Magazine and The Boy's Own Magazine. He encouraged his wife, Isabella (1836-65) to write the Beeton's Book of Household Management, which he first published in parts 1859-61, before its subsequent success as a book. Beeton sold his titles for a while to Ward, Lock, but continued to produce them. In 1872 there was a falling out with the firm over his anti-monarchist views After two court cases concerning the use of the Beeton name he regained his independence in 1875, but without his titles.