1911 Scottish Gardens: Being a Representative Selection of Different Types, Old and New
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Description
Colour Plates, Illustrated, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding
New edition. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece and thirty-one colour plates. Collated complete. A charming work on Scottish gardens, with chapters on those found in Wigtownshire, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Berwickshire, Inverness, Fife, Aberdeenshire, Stirlingshire, and more. Written by Sir Herbert Eustace Maxwell, a Scottish novelist, essayist, artist, antiquarian, horticulturalist, prominent salmon angler and Conservative politician. Illustrated by Mary Georgina Wade Wilson, a Scottish artist known for her watercolor and pastel paintings.
Condition
In the original pictorial brown cloth binding. Externally, sound with rubbing and light bumping to the extremities. Fading to the spine and the odd mark to the boards. Small splits in the cloth to the front joint and the head of the spine. Front hinge starting but firm. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with light scattered spotting predominantly to the first and last few pages. Minor age toning to the endpapers.
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