Reginald Farrer — Alpines and Bog-Plants

London, Edward Arnold, 1908. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this illustrated work on plants and gardening. A first edition of this work, with frontispiece and fifteen further plate, many of which are photographs from the author. Collated, complete.The work of Reginald Farrer, a traveller and plant collector, who published a number of books. A plant collector, garden writer and populariser of rock and alpine gardening, Farrer's lasting legacy is a spectacular display of plants from the Himalayas, growing today in a wild display around Ingleborough.The continuation of Farrer's best known work, 'My Rock Garden', with chapters titled 'of shrubs and their placing', 'the big bog and its lillies' and 'a collecting day above Arolla&apos.With a contemporary inscription to the front free endpaper, dated Christmas 1922. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Bright and smart. Bumping to spine head and tail. Contemporary owner's inscription to front free endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Scattered light foxing throughout. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: Not Stated. Very Good Indeed .