Title
The florist's directory : or, A treatise on the culture of flowers ; to which is added a supplementary dissertation on soils, manures, &c
Title Variants
Alternative:
Florist's directory
Alternative:
Maddock florist's directory
Alternative:
Treatise on the culture of flowers
By
Maddock, James, 1763-1825
Maddock, James, 1718-1786
, author
Maddock, James
, 1764-1825 editor
Couchman, Stephen, active 1779-1824
, printer
B. White and Sons
, bookseller
G. G. J. and J. Robinson (Paternoster-Row, London, England)
, bookseller
T. & J. Egerton
, bookseller
Type
Book
Material
Published material
Publication info
London, Printed for the author & sold by B. White & Sons, Fleet Street, G.G.J&J Robinson, Paternoser Row; and T&J. Egerton, Charing Crofs, 1792
Notes
Signatures: A-Mm [superscript 4], 6 leaves of plates.
Engraved title page
Copy inscribed.
Engraved plates with hand-coloring; woodcut tail-pieces
Signatures: A-2M⁴
Colophon: Printed by Stephen Couchman
Henrey, B. British botanical and horticultural literature before 1800, | 1002
Posthumous publication was overseen by the author's son, also James Maddock (1764-1825). The florist's directory is of the culture of the-then main eight florists' flowers with chapters on "bulbous-rooted flowers" and "dissertation on soils, manures, etc"
Subjects
Agriculture
,
Early works to 1800
,
Floriculture
,
Flowers
,
Inscriptions (Provenance)
,
Soils
Language
English
Identifiers
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.16498
LCCN:
https://lccn.loc.gov/agr19000938
OCLC:
3212830
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