THE VILLA GARDENER (2 Volumes)

London: Simpkin Marshall & Co, 1871. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Two bound volumes of this periodical. published monthly beginning in 1870 throught 1881. With numerous in-text illustrations of fruits, flowers, vegetables, structures, implements and the like. In publisher's terra-cotta cloth, stamped in blind with titling and decorations blocked in gold on the spine; Volume II with some fade. A wealth of rather charmingly presented information on late Victorian gardening practice. Very Good binding.