(Horticulture) Three good works J. C. Loudon. 'An Encyclopae...

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(Horticulture) Three good works J. C. Loudon. 'An Encyclopaedia of Gardening; Comprising the Theory and Practice of Horticulture, Floriculture, Aboriculture, and Landscape-Gardening ...,' reprint, contemporary marbled boards backed with a green vellum, original paper label to spine, ink inscription to front pastedown reads Royal Horticultural Society of Cornwall with the ex libris label for the Courtney Library, pp.16 publishers catalogue bound to the front, xl, pp.1270, errata, another publishers catalogue bound to the rear, profuse with engravings throughout, vg, Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longmans, London, [n.d, preface suggests 1834 with the front catalogue dated May 1839]; John Lindley. 'The Theory of Horticulture; Or, An Attempt to Explain The Principal Operations of Gardening Upon Physiological Principles,' half calf with marbled boards, loss to spine and loosening front board, ex libris label Courtney Library, xi, erratum, pp.387, vignette engravings, vg text block, Longma et al, London, 1840; With another Gardeners Dictionary, by C. H. Wright, 1896. (3)