Colour Schemes for the Flower Garden
by Jekyll, Gertrude
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good+
- Seller
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Port Fairy, Victoria, Australia
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About This Item
Country Life. London. 1914 (3rd) Tall 8vo. Gertrude Jekyll's advice and planning for flower gardens. A gardening classic. In blue cloth covers with gilt to spine and front. Profusely ill. Photo ills. & planting diagrams, some fold out. With colour frontis plate. Foldout diagrams and protected colour illustration with tissue paper and numerous b/w photo ills. Quality pages with some mild foxing with blue endpapers. Bumping to spine and edges, wear consisent with books of this age. Otherwise clean and tight copy.
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- Bookseller
- Lansdowne Books (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 355
- Title
- Colour Schemes for the Flower Garden
- Author
- Jekyll, Gertrude
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 3rd Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Country Life Ltd
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1914
- Pages
- 159 pp. and index
- Size
- Octavo 14.5 x23 cm
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- Illustrated; Gardening; Gardens; collectible;
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- Cloth
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- Gilt
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