Special Features

The toys we couldn't resist building: oracles, daily readings, dinner wheels, telegrams and other machinery made from old books.

One hundred seventy-nine original colour plates, browsable by series — the great Victorian flower gallery restored.

From Familiar Garden Flowers, 1879

Around the world in thirty historic houses, in the order a 1908 traveler would have taken them.

From Historic Houses and Their Gardens, 1908

All thirty houses and gardens pinned across four continents.

From Historic Houses and Their Gardens, 1908

Curses, ghosts and the secrets of thirty great houses — 105 of the strangest true stories, each linking to the house it belongs to.

From Historic Houses and Their Gardens, 1908

Orchids, ferns, trees, fruits, the gardener’s craft and the garden’s pests — four volumes sorted.

From The Illustrated Dictionary of Gardening, 1884