A Guide to the Formation and Management of the kitchen, fruit, and flower gardens and the cultivation of conservatory greenhouse and stove plants; with a copious calendar of gardening operations, and select lists of plants, fruits, and vegetables. By Robert Thompson, new edition revised and extended by Thomas Moore, assisted by eminent practical gardeners. Illustrated with 12 colour plates and 20 b/w plates, plus numerous engraving figures in the text. Half bound with black leather; the leather has chips and wear, noticeably to corners, spine ends and hinges; rubbing wear on other binding surfaces. Block edges are dust darkened. Break at front end papers but front board held with three of the four stiches; sound otherwise, and no loose leaves. Foxing spots on end papers, on b/w plate leaves, and on flimsies facing colour plates; occasional foxing spots and finger marks on other pages. Some insect damage to the margins of two leaves, pp 313-315, affecting the print which is not fully l