The amateur's kitchen garden, frame-ground and forcing pit
Subtitle: a handy guide to the formation and management of the kitchen garden and the cultivation of useful vegetables and fruits
By: by Shirley Hibberd ... ; illustrated with coloured plates and wood engravings.
Contributors: Whymper, Edward, 1840-1911.; Adeney, Thomas Samuel, fl. 1846-1886.; Fawcett, Benjamin, 1808-1893.; Simson and Groombridge
Publisher: Groombridge and Sons
Published: 1877
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 306
Subjects: Gardening -- Technique.
Notes: Colour wood-engraved plates are unsigned.  All are with title captions.

Colour plates were printed by Benjamin Fawcett.  Cf. McLean, Ruari and Antonia.  Benjamin Fawcett: engraver and colour printer, 1988.

Most wood-engraved illustrations within the text are unsigned.  One is signed "E. Whymper Sc." [i.e. Edward Whymper?].  One is signed "Adeney. Sc." and another is signed: "WAD".

Includes small wood-engraved decorative initials and tail-pieces.

Includes "Index.": p. [304]-306.

Publisher's advertisements on p. [1-6] at end.

McLean, Ruari and Antonia. Benjamin Fawcett, p. 173.

MASS copy: Bound in green sand-grain cloth blocked in gold, black and blind in the same design as McLean D 0506 and McLean D 0510.  Spine with imprint: "Groombridge".  Boards with bevelled edges.  With pastel yellow painted endpapers.