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SIGNED BY THE AUTHORS 116. HAY, Roy; SYNGE, Pat- rick THE DICTIONARY OF GARDEN PLANTS in colour with House and Greenhouse plants Arcadia Press, 1970. Deluxe issue, number 29 of 265 copies, expressly de- signed and bound by Zaehns - dorf of London for the Arca- dia Press, and signed by the authors on the title page. 4to. Full green morocco with red and amber leather inlays and gilt tooling. Gilt titles to the spine, elaborate floriate gilt dentelle turn ins over mar-
century horticultural practices and the third edition was revised and enlarged by Hitt, with more plates incorporated than in the first edition.
118. HOME, Gordon MOTOR ROUTES OF ENGLAND South- ern Section A & C Black, 1909. First edition. 8vo. Black cloth with flying car vignette on the up - per cover in gilt and red. Lettered gilt on the spine and upper cover. Top edge gilt. Twenty four full page colour illustrations by a variety of artists, forty two sketch maps and plans and fold out map in colour at the rear. A very good copy, with foxing throughout. [46387] £125
bled endpapers. All edges gilt. Housed in the original fleece- lined clamshell box. Page after page of colour photographs with a guide to planting, positioning and seasonal information. A fine copy of a very handsome binding, in a fine box. [46444] £300
The publisher’s advertising blurb states, “This book has been produced to meet the needs so often felt by motorists of a book which shall describe a carefully thought out route through the southern portion of England.” It includes notes for drivers, dis- tances and interesting objects along the way. The routes take the motorist on a voyage from London via Reigate to Canterbury, along the South Coast from Dover to Fowey and Taunton, and then back through Padstow, Wells, Marlborough and Reading.
117. HITT, Thomas A TREATISE OF FRUIT-TREES Robinson and Roberts, 1768. Third edition. 8vo. Full mottled brown calf, lettered in gilt to red title label on the spine. Seven en- graved plates, six folding. A very good copy, with joints tender and a bookplate and purchase note to front pastedown. [45349] £450 Thomas Hitt, then-gardener of Lord Robert Manners’ estate in Blox- holme, wrote his treatise on fruit trees with the aim of aiding budding enthusiasts. It became a valuable insight into 18th
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