Bodley Head Booklet - Boland (Maureen). Garden Lore: Extracts from Old Wives' Lore for Gardeners.

Garden Lore: Extracts from Old Wives' Lore for Gardeners. By Maureen Boland. Foolscap 8vo, pp.16 (inc. colophon), Printed at the Stellar Press for private distribution by the publishers for Christmas 1976.

One of 250 copies on wove paper. 6 full-page illustrations in green taken from sixteenth-century herbals. Sewn into plain card covers, buff paper dust-jacket with an additional illustration on the front and rear panel. A fine copy.

With a presentation inscription from John Ryder: "My greeting will be late, I fear, but some financial difficulties cropped up at a late stage this year! John"