HIBBERD, Shirley

The Fern Garden; How To Make, Keep, and Enjoy it. Or Fern Culture Made Easy.

London: Groombridge and Sons, 1869. Hardcover. Octavo. Second edition. Original green cloth with elaborate fern design and titles in gilt to front cover and spine, color plates and illustrations. A wonderful victorian era guide to ferns and how to culivate them in indoor gardens. Title features wonderful illustrated ads for the glass dome fern gardens and accessories. Front hinge cracked, front endpaper loose, pages toned with occasional spotting, book plate to front pastedown, lower half of spine cloth split, wear to corners and ends of spine with some cloth loss, corners bumped and rubbed, mild soiling to cloth, else a good copy. Item #12748

Price: $100.00