The Amateur's Rose Book by Shirley Hibberd
1898. New Edition. 297 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth with gilt lettering. Colour frontispiece with B&W illustrations throughout. Heavy foxing and tanning to endpapers and page edges. Both hinges cracked with netting visible, thus the boards are slack. Some gutter cracking. Mild wear and bumping to spine, board edges and corners, with crushing to spine ends. Notable scuffing, staining and marking to boards, with tanning to spine.