Bidspirit auction | A Collection of Contemporary Gardening


A Collection of Contemporary Gardening and Horticultural Books including Diarmuid Gavin and RHS. (DJ) - A collection of modern gardening and horticultural reference books, primarily late 20th and early 21st-century British publications. Notable volumes in the lot include homefront in the garden by Diarmuid Gavin, published by BBC, featuring pictorial boards; Making the Modern Garden by Christopher Bradley-Hole, published by Mitchell Beazley, a large quarto volume with dust jacket; and RHS Plants for Places, edited by Christopher Brickell, published by Dorling Kindersley for the Royal Horticultural Society, in hardcover with dust jacket. The collection also includes a publication by Pippa Greenwood published by DK (Dorling Kindersley) and a softcover horticultural catalogue from Notcutts. The volumes are housed in a black plastic crate. Several books have orange adhesive lot or price stickers affixed to the covers with the numbers 337 and 16 16. The collection comprises a mix of hardcover and softcover bindings, many being large format quarto volumes with extensive photographic illustrations.