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Offline roiphil

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collecting old gardening books
« on: March 15, 2007, 10:54:09 AM »
as a pass time i collect old gardening books my oldest one and prized posesion is gardening illustrated 1884 by w robinson its a weekly journal from march 1 1883 to march 1 1884 hard back, does any one else have old garden books

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Re: collecting old gardening books
« Reply #1 on: March 15, 2007, 05:36:30 PM »
One or two!. The problem now is that the old gardening books I would like to own are beyond the depth of my pockets. Still we keep searching and every now and then we find them.
I now have over 13 metres of shelf space filled with Gardening books!
Much more fun to read about gardening than actually go out and do it!

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Re: collecting old gardening books
« Reply #2 on: March 15, 2007, 05:59:51 PM »
You're making me curious about the titles and gardensubjects of these books. I have a few metres of them myself. One day I probably will make a bibliography of the gardenbook section in my library. Perhaps a suggestion for George to add a few more fields in his software: I think about place and date of the edition, number of pages, illustrations, description of the copy itself, its condition a.s.o.
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Re: collecting old gardening books
« Reply #3 on: March 15, 2007, 08:39:43 PM »
We have a list of the books, Tittles and Authors, but not any other details. This is kept purely for making sure we do not buy a book for a second time.