Bidspirit auction | Reader's Digest Encyclopaedia of Garden

Reader's Digest Encyclopaedia of Garden Plants and Flowers. The Reader's Digest Association, 1973. Second reprint. - A large-format reference volume titled Reader’s Digest Encyclopaedia of Garden Plants and Flowers, edited and designed by The Reader's Digest Association Limited, London. The title page identifies Roy Hay, MBE, VMH as the Consultant Editor and Kenneth A. Beckett as the Technical Adviser, listing numerous contributors, artists, and photographers. The publication was printed in Great Britain, with a copyright date of 1971 and this specific volume noted as the second reprint from 1973. The book is bound in olive-green publisher's cloth with gilt-stamped lettering on the spine. The spine text, though worn, reads READER’S DIGEST / ENCYCLOPAEDIA / OF GARDEN PLANTS AND FLOWERS. The internal layout features comprehensive encyclopaedic entries regarding botanical species, illustrated throughout.