The Greenhouse, Hot-House, and Stove bird Miss Charlesworth was a close

Miss Charlesworth was a close friend of our grt grt grandfather William Perks and also his son John Brianjohn Perks of Rotherhithe where the Perks lived in a large Georgian house on the river front

exhibition history

Original pictorial card covers

cloth spine

The Greenhouse, Hot-House, and Stove bird Miss Charlesworth was a closeIncluding lists of the most beautiful species of exotic flowering plants, and directions for their cultivation London: William S. Orr, 1838. First Edition. 8vo. pp vi, [2], 415. With 18 hand coloured plates, including frontispiece and titlepage vignette, all with tissue guards, plus numerous line drawings. Rebound in slightly later half calf over green cloth, gilt title to spine, slightly rubbed and boards stained in places. All edges gilt. The plates