By Dion Clayton Calthrop
London   Adam & Charles Black
9.5" by 7" [8], ix-xii, [2], 3-239, [5pp]
The first edition of this colourfully illustrated gardening work, looking at many lovely Edwardian gardens.
By Dion Clayton Calthrop

1910 The Charm of Gardens

London   Adam & Charles Black
9.5" by 7" [8], ix-xii, [2], 3-239, [5pp]
The first edition of this colourfully illustrated gardening work, looking at many lovely Edwardian gardens.
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Colour Plates, First Edition, Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding

The first edition of this work.

A beautiful treatise on the various charms of garden, and how to bring more charm into your own home garden. With directions on what to plant and treat in your garden throughout the year.

Illustrated with a colour frontispiece, and thirty-one colour plates.

Collated, complete.

Written by Dion Clayton Calthrop.

Prior owner's ink inscription to the recto to the front endpaper.

Four pages of publisher's adverts to the rear.

Condition

In the original publisher's cloth binding. Externally, smart. Light bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities. A few minor marks to the boards and spine. A little discolouration to the rear board. Front hinge is starting but firm. Prior owner's ink inscription to the recto to the front endpaper. Internally, generally firmly bound. Pages are bright and generally clean with some spots.

Very Good

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