Some English Gardens
by Gertrude Jekyll
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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BATH, Somerset, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Longmans, Green, and Co. , 1933. Cloth. Good. 13" by 10". George S. Elgood. A reissue of this beautifully illustrated work on English gardens. Reissue, 1933. Originally published 1904. Illustrated with fifty coloured plates with tissue guards. Collated complete. A collection of reproductions of watercolour drawings of English gardens with notes. Includes a variety of gardens from Brockenhurst and Great Tangley Manor, to Cleeve Prior, Speke Hall, and Stone Hall in Easton. Illustrated by George Samuel Elgood, an English artist and illustrator who became well known for his paintings of formal gardens. With notes from Gertrude Jekyll, a British horticulturist, garden designer, craftswoman, photographer, writer and artist. She created over 400 gardens in the United Kingdom, Europe and the United States. In the original cloth binding. Externally, sound with rubbing and bumping to the extremities. A chip to the spine and the odd mark to the board. Minor fading to the spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean with light age toning to the endpapers. Previous owner's bookplate to the front endpaper. Good
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Details
- Bookseller
- Rooke Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 852T57
- Title
- Some English Gardens
- Author
- Gertrude Jekyll
- Illustrator
- George S. Elgood
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Longmans, Green, and Co.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1933
- Size
- 13" by 10"
- Keywords
- Gardens English Jekyll Elgood English
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We are a small team dedicated to bringing you very scarce books at reasonable prices. We specialise in rare and hard to come by works on all subjects over the last 500 years, together with modern first editions and decorative sets and bindings. Our library has something for every interest and specialism. We deliver worldwide using a fully tracked and insured courier delivery service.
Where are We?
Based in the literary city of Bath, our offices are housed in the Eastern Dispensary. Built in 1845, the building originally existed as a charitable institution providing medical care. The building now houses our collection of over twenty thousand books and has five full time members of staff.
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