V. SACKVILLE-WEST: THE ILLUSTRATED GARDEN BOOK A New Anthology by Fox, Robin Lane - 1986

London, England: Michael Joseph. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. 0718126602; Binding is almost as new. Contents are almost as new, with a very slight waviness on the fore margins. No DJ. ; Second Printing of the First Edition, 1986. 7-5/8" x 10-1/2" , 192pp. Colorful front cover . Brown spine, back cover, and front cover's fore corners, as seen on leather bindings (this book is not leather bound) . Bright gold spine lettering, front and back decorations, and front cover lettering in a brown panel. GARDEN. Illustrations by Freda Titford. Photographs by Ken Kirkwood. "For nearly fifteen years, Vita Sackville-West enchanged readers of the OBSERVER newspaper with her weekly column on gardening. I have chosen this book from the original OBSERVER articles, bringing some of the plant names up to date and changing a phrase or removing a dated reference and sometimes, running two different pieces on one and the same plant into a continuous whole. Many of the pieces have not been re-issued since their Sunday debut. I have tried to convey the various qualities of the entire series by giving each of the main types some space. " ... Each of the 12 chapters and the Introduction by Robin Lane Fox is introduced by a full-color photo. Well over a hundred colorful paintings of flowers are scattered throughout. .