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Home and Garden.: Notes and thoughts, practical and critical, of a worker in both.
by JEKYLL, Gertrude
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
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- Seller
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London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Longmans, Green and Co.,, 1900. In a fine Zaehnsdorf exhibition binding First edition, first impression, and a particularly attractive copy, presented in a Zaehnsdorf exhibition binding, with the stamp to rear pastedown of a binder using a hammer. Gertrude Jekyll (1843-1932) was a British horticulturist, garden designer, and craftswoman. She created over 400 gardens in the United Kingdom, Europe, and the United States, and her prolific and enduring advice on gardening, published across magazines, books, and journals, remains an influential reference for gardeners to this day. Octavo. Finely bound in mid-20th century dark green morocco by Zaehnsdorf, spine lettered in gilt with floral tooling in compartments separated by raised bands, multiple gilt fillets to boards with floral cornerpieces, leaf decoration to turn-ins, green silk endpapers, gilt edges. With 53 illustrations from photographs by the author. Small plain card with gift inscription pasted to binder's front blank, tiny dent to lower spine panel, an excellent copy.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Peter Harrington
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 162859
- Title
- Home and Garden.
- Author
- JEKYLL, Gertrude
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Place of Publication
- London: Longmans, Green and Co.,
- Date Published
- 1900
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About the Seller
Peter Harrington
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London
About Peter Harrington
Since its establishment, Peter Harrington has specialised in sourcing, selling and buying the finest quality original first editions, signed, rare and antiquarian books, fine bindings and library sets. Peter Harrington first began selling rare books from the Chelsea Antiques Market on London's King's Road. For the past twenty years the business has been run by Pom Harrington, Peter's son.
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- 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...
- Edges
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- Morocco
- Morocco is a style of leather book binding that is usually made with goatskin, as it is durable and easy to dye. (see also...
- Raised Band(s)
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- Spine
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- Fine
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- Octavo
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- First Edition
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