By Marie Luise Gothein
London   J.M. Dent & Sons
11" by 8" xxiv, 459; xv, 486pp.
A beautiful first edition in the English language of this extensive history of garden art by Marie-Luise Gothein.
By Marie Luise Gothein

1928 A History of Garden Art

London   J.M. Dent & Sons
11" by 8" xxiv, 459; xv, 486pp.
A beautiful first edition in the English language of this extensive history of garden art by Marie-Luise Gothein.
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First Edition, Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding

The first English language edition of this work, translated from the German by Mrs Archer-Hind. Edited by Walter P. Wright. A monumental study of garden art by Marie-Luise Gothein, Prussian scholar and gardener; complete in two volumes. 

This is the author's best-known work, considered to be the best and most comprehensive history of the world's gardens. 

Adorned with numerous illustrations in text.

Condition

In the original publisher's full cloth binding. Externally very smart with minor shelf wear only, lightly bumped to head and tail of spine and extremities, back strip darkened. H Douglas Curry and Alice C.D. Riley's bookplates to front pastedown, previous ownership ink inscription to front free endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean.

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