The bulb garden
Subtitle: or, How to cultivate bulbous and tuberous-rooted flowering plants to perfection : a manual adapted for both the professional and amateur gardener
By: by Samuel Wood ... ; with coloured illustrations, plans of gardens best suited to the cultivation of bulbs, and numerous wood engravings.
Contributors: Macquoid, Thomas Robert, 1820-1912.; Le Feuvre, C.; Fawcett, Benjamin, 1808-1893.; Spottiswoode & Co.
Publisher: Crosby Lockwood and Co.
Published: 1878
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 128
Subjects: Bulbs (Plants); Gardening.
Other titles: How to cultivate bulbous and tuberous-rooted flowering plants to perfection
Notes: Publisher's device printed on t.p.

Colour wood-engraved plates are unsigned and without imprint.  All are with title captions.

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.  A few are signed "TS".

Includes wood-engraved illustrated tail-pieces.  Several are signed "TM" [i.e. Thomas MacQuoid].

Publisher's advertisements on p. [1]-32 and [1]-16 at end.

McLean, Ruari and Antonia.  Benjamin Fawcett, p. 176.

MASS copy: Bound in blue fine diagonal rib-grain cloth blocked in gold and black.  Upper cover blocked in gold and black with illustration replicated from the text.  Lower cover blocked in black with publisher's monogram.  Spine with imprint: "Crosby Lockwood & Co.".  Boards with bevelled edges.  With light brown painted endpapers.  With bookseller's label: "C. Le Feuvre,  Bookseller,  Beresford Library,  Jersey".  With ownership label: "Ruari McLean".