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EMSLEY, CLIVE (ED.) Essays in comparative history: economy, politics and society in Britain and America 1850-1920
Open University Press, 1984, 1st edition.Publisher's green cloth, no dust jacket.0 335 10592 0.Good /No Jacket.Owners' signatures; some staining to paper of frontispiece & t.p. the rest of the book v.g.Recently superseded by Brent Elliott's bicentennial history, this account of the RHS has the virtue of being a little more reflective; the 'calendar of events' in Appendix 1 gives a useful timeline from 1804 to 1968.The author brought Mr A.Simmonds' draft account through to publication following the death of this long-serving executive of the Society who had started to research the book in his retirement.The author was himself a former Director of the RHS, following John Gilmour.The monochrome illustrations are mainly of people, and this is very much a book about the Society itself and deals only briefly with the development of horticulture over the past two centuries. In English.
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