A Book of Roses.
Hole. S. (Samuel) Reynolds.
London: Edwin Arnold, 1898. First edition Octavo. Red cloth boards with gilt lettering and deep red roses atop green stems on front board and spine. Attractive colored heraldic bookplate of Detroit area author and subway designer Maynard Dauchy Follin on front pastedown. Name of another former owner, well known rose, alpine and rock gardener Betty Blake, on free endpaper. Boards slightly bowed inward with soem wear to edges and corners. Covers slightly scuffed. Page edges slightly soiled. Some wear to hinge at first endpapers. 298 p. with additional 32 pages of a Nov. 1898 Arnold catalog at rear, some pages of which are uncut. A classic late nineteenth century work musing on roses, with a fair amount of literary references and some practical inframtion on planting and exhibiting. Reynolds was dean of Rochester Cathedral, an avid gardener, and an author of several books,. Very Good Hardcover (Item ID: 10253)
$50.00
