Beautiful Roses for Garden and Greenhouse

Culture, Propagation, Pruning

by John Weathers

illustrated by John Allen 

London:  Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent, & Co., [1903] 

Hardback is overall in VERY GOOD- condition.

• G+ray covers with black text and color illustration. 
• Boards show some exposure, rippling, smudges, edgewear.  Corners are bumped, scuffed, with exposed board.  See photos.
• Spine has black text and is darkened, with crushed ends.
• Binding is intact, with stitching visible at some openings.  
• Pastedowns and feps have some light foxing, bookseller marks. 
• Frontispiece, Plate 1, is present. 
• Illustrations, thirty-three chromolithographs, are bright and clear, with scattered foxing, marginal age-toning.  See photos.  
• Interior is gently age-toned, moreso at margins.  Inside pages are free of writing and intentional marks.
• Text block edges are darkened, have some edgewear at foot.  
• PS2025.1023

152  pages. 5.5 x 8 inches

First Edition, in the publisher's original decorative gray boards with red rose illustration.  Complete with thirty-three chromo-lithographed plates illustrating different varieties of roses.  Plates are Very Good with toning at the margins and a smattering of foxing; condition overall is Very Good Minus.  Boards somewhat darkened, with rippling of cloth, and some tenderness to binding.  Very scarce.

The author John Weathers (1867-1928) was a lecturer of Horticulture to the Middlesex Country Council in England.  Beautiful Roses was intended as a guide to those who didn't have a thorough knowledge of the 'Queen of Flowers', but who wished to learn.  This book looks at different varieties of roses, as well as including information on when and where is best to grow roses, how to prune and propagate them, and how to train them to grow up walls or arches.  The thirty-three colored plates were illustrated by John Allen. 

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