MALING, E[lizabeth] A[nn].
In-Door Plants and How to Grow Them,
In-Door Plants and How to Grow Them,
For the drawing-room, balcony, and greenhouse: containing clear instructions by which ladies may obtain, at a small expense, a constant supply of flowers. With a frontispiece.
Stock Code 115397
London, Smith, Elder and Co., 1861
Author Elisabeth Ann Maling (1829-1866) was the daughter of a naval officer whose first wife had been Harriet Darwin, sister of Charles. 'Maling was a noted horticulturalist and she wrote several books on gardening, flower arranging, and birdkeeping. In addition, she wrote the single work of fiction, Cragstone Cottage: or, Life in the Country (1862)' (At the Circulating Library: A Database of Victorian Fiction, 1837-1901).
First edition; hand-coloured frontispiece, engravings within the text, bookseller's ticket of J. Cox, Aberystwith and contemporary ownership signature to the front pastedown, contents faintly toned with occasional small spots; original green cloth blocked in gilt and blind with a design of a window full of plants on the upper board, yellow coated endpapers, binding rubbed with some wear at the extremities, hinges cracked, very good condition; 150pp.
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