1939 Old Fashioned Flowers
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Description
Colour Plates, First Edition, Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding
A first edition copy of this charming book of Old Fashioned Flowers, by Sacheverell Sitwell and illustrated by John Farleigh.
Sacheverell Sitwell was an English writer and best known as an art and music critic. This volume considers the Jacobean florist, the old primrose, old fashioned roses and the nineteenth century florist.
With eleven stunning colour plates.
Collated, complete.
Condition
In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, very smart with some fading to the spine and some light marks to the boards. Some light chipping to the head and tail of the spine. A previous owner inscription to the edition page dated 1944. Internally, firmly bound with bright and clean pages.
Very Good
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