Descrizione

First Edition. Extensively illustrated throughout with 147 photographs from extensive files at Country Life and from other sources. 8vo, publisher’s original turquois blue polished buckram, lettered and decorated in gilt on the spine and upper cover. xv, 177 pp. A very good and clean copy internally, very well preserved with the cloth in good order, the gilt bright, the spine without fading and with only some light mellowing or light evidence of age or use to some areas of the cloth.

Edizione: one of jekyll’s earliest books, issued in 1901. this is a fine work which approaches only ‘one great subject of horticulture. described are simple ways to use some of the many beautiful mountain plants and the plants of marsh and water. it is intended as a guide to amateurs, towards bettering the individual garden and outer grounds. the reader will find the pictorial illustrations invaluable in the use of the guide. a fine work by one of the greatest horticulturalists of all time.