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Home and Garden. Notes and Thoughts, Practical and Critical, of a Worker in Both.
by JEKYLL, GERTRUDE:
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- Hardcover
- Condition
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- Seller
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Dorchester, Dorset, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Longmans, Green & Co. London. 1900 New Impression. Maroon buckram with nice gilt. design on front cover and spine. In good condition. Spine a little faded, small nick head of spine. Edges of covers slightly bumped. Owner’s bookplate on front endpaper. Browning to endpapers. A clean and tight copy. 301pp. 53 photo.ills, from photographs by the author. As in her first book, Jekyll writes in intimate detail of her labors of love in her own garden. She includes thoughts about her own home and its decoration, and gives many tips on arranging flowers from the garden and making pot-pourri. Some of the chapters included are: How the House was Built, Trees and Lanes, Large Rock Gardens, and Plants for Poor Soils. Jekyll draws the reader in immediately with her simple, direct style, which gardening sound both delightful and effortless.
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- Bookseller
- The Antique Map & Bookshop
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 94929
- Title
- Home and Garden. Notes and Thoughts, Practical and Critical, of a Worker in Both.
- Author
- JEKYLL, GERTRUDE:
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Longmans, Green & Co. London. 1900 New Impression
- Keywords
- NATURAL HISTORY GERTRUDE JEKYLL, Home, Garden, Notes, Thoughts, Practical, Critical, Worker, Both, horticulture, botany
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About the Seller
The Antique Map & Bookshop
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Dorchester, Dorset
About The Antique Map & Bookshop
The Antique Map & Bookshop was established in 1976 and has been in Puddletown since 1978. PUDDLETOWN is situated just outside DORCHESTER in the county of DORSET, on the A35 to BOURNEMOUTH. The village has a by-pass now which means there is easy access to the village and ample space for parking. Our shop is directly on the main road through the village.
Glossary
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- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Buckram
- A plain weave fabric normally made from cotton or linen which is stiffened with starch or other chemicals to cover the book...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Poor
- A book with significant wear and faults. A poor condition book is still a reading copy with the full text still readable. Any...
- 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....
- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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