Resultados da Pesquisa: the villa garden directory or monthly por nicol walter

Edinburgh: A Constable and co, 1809. First edition (hardback). 16mo (16cm by 10cm), xv, 402pp, 6pp adverts. Bound in grey cloth, red morocco title label to the spine. Some rubbing of the boards, corners of boards a little bumped, lacks the half-title page, some foxing of the preliminary pages; overall, this book is in good condition.

Edinburgh: Printed for A. Constable and Co., 1809. First edition, 12mo, xv, [1], 402 + 6pp., of publishers averts, with half-title, orig. boards, re-backed with partial orig. spine label, uncut.

Edinburgh: A. Constable and Co, 1809 . First edition. Leather. Very Good. 6.5" by 4.5". None. The very scarce first edition of Walter Nicol's early nineteenth century guide to the management and maintenance of the villa garden. The very scarce first edition of this guide to the maintenance of the villa garden from Scottish garden and hothouse designer, Walter Nicol.Nicol discusses soils, walls, trees, shrubs and garden formation, with the latter portion of the work arranged by month, with Nicol providing an account of what maintenance and planting should be undertaken in each month of the year. Nicol was employed at a number of estates in Scotland and improved the design and layout of many gardens and glasshouses. He was in particular responsible for the walled garden layout at Dalhousie Castle in Midlothian.With the armorial bookplate of British army officer and Captain of the Royal Company of Archers, Brigadier-General Sir Robert Gordon Gilmour, to the front pastedown. Six pages of publisher's… Ler mais