Some English Gardens
by Jekyll, Gertrude & George S. Elgood
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Orig. navy cloth, spine and front cover lettered in gilt. Teg. Very good
- Seller
-
ardsley, New York, United States
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About This Item
London: Longman's Green, 1904. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. navy cloth, spine and front cover lettered in gilt. Teg. Very good. 131 pages. 34 x 24 cm, fifty full-page colored plates. Scarce and very collectable work by the doyen of English landscape architecture. Gertrude Jekyll concentrated her design work on applying plants in a variety of settings, woodland gardens, water gardens and herbaceous borders always striving to achieve the most natural effect. Slight rubbing to backstrip extremities.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Royoung bookseller, Inc. (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 24136
- Title
- Some English Gardens
- Author
- Jekyll, Gertrude & George S. Elgood
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Orig. navy cloth, spine and front cover lettered in gilt. Teg. Very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Longman's Green
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1904
- Keywords
- Gardens
- Bookseller catalogs
- Architecture; Landscape Architecture; Design;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Royoung bookseller, Inc.
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ardsley, New York
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- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Cloth
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.