I also keep a look out for books,
on and about fish and fishkeeping, in doing so I often find gems like these two offered for sale from Rook Books, the first, 1903-05 Flora and Sylva. A Monthly Review for Lovers of
Garden, Woodland, Tree or Flower; New and Rare Plants, Trees, Shrubs, and
Fruits; the Garden Beautiful, Home Woods, and Home Landscape, by W. Robinson, published: London size: 13"
by 10" Pagination: 324pp; 392pp; 17pp, 32pp - 360pp,
they are the first edition of the collected volumes of the 'Flora and
Sylva' monthly magazine, illustrated with numerous colour plates throughout,
complete
in three volumes,
'Flora and Sylva' was a monthly magazine for gardeners and nature lovers,
volume
I containing the issues published from April 1903, with issue one, to December
1903, with issue nine,
volume
II containing the issues published from January 1904, with issue ten, to
December 1904, with issue twenty-one,
volume
III containing the issues published January 1905, with issue twenty-two, to
December 1905, with issue thirty-three, William Robinson was a gardener and journalist, who
popularised the idea of a wilder garden, that became popular in English cottage
gardens. Before this, more structured and formal gardens had been popular in
Britain. He published 'The Wild Garden' and 'The English Flower Garden' a small note although collated, volume III is lacking pages 17 to 32, including
lacking a colour plate facing page 24, £350.00 will by all three volumes, keeping to natural history,
The Wild Beasts of the World,
written
by Frank Finn, published London T. C. & E. C. Jack, size: 11" by 8" Pagination: [4], v-xi, 404pp
the book details many different wild beasts from across the world, illustrated with colour
plates throughout,
the
illustrations are reproduction from the drawings of Louis Sargent, Cuthbert E.
Swan, and Winifred Austin,
there is a
colour frontispiece, and ninety-nine colour plates,
what a nice volume to own,
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