By Gertrude Jekyll
London   Longmans, Green and Co
9" by 6" [4], v-xvi, [1], 2-286pp
Gertrude Jekyll's popular illustrated work on the year in the life of a garden, a beautiful work complete with all plates.
By Gertrude Jekyll

1899 Wood and Garden Notes and Thoughts, Practical and Critical, of a Working Amateur

London   Longmans, Green and Co
9" by 6" [4], v-xvi, [1], 2-286pp
Gertrude Jekyll's popular illustrated work on the year in the life of a garden, a beautiful work complete with all plates.
£120.00
: 1kgs / : 798P46

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Description

Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding

The sixth impression of this work, published in the same year as the first impression.

A popular work by Gertrude Jekyll, following a year in the life of garden, trees, and their growth. With additional chapters on subjects such as the colour and weeding of gardens.

Illustrated with a frontispiece, and forty-five plates.

Collated complete.

Written and illustrated by the noted horticulturist and garden designer, Gertrude Jekyll. Jekyll created over four-hundred gardens across the world, as was renowned for her writings for 'Country Life'.

Condition

In the original publisher's cloth binding. Externally, with some rubbing to the boards and spine. Spine is a little faded. Light bumping to the spine and extremities. Hinges are starting but firm. Prior owner's ink inscription to the front paste down. Internally, generally firmly bound. Pages are lightly age-toned and generally clean with some spotting.

Good

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