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20004to., First Edition, with numerous coloured and tinted photographs throughout; cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. Nelhams, the resident gardener, gives a richly illustrated account of the family, garden and plants associated with this magnificent feature of the Scilly Isles.
19898vo., First Edition, with 31 plates on 16; green cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. An affectionate life of 'Britain's Head Gardener'.
19894to., First Edition, with coloured frontispiece and numerous coloured photographs (many full-page) throughout; green cloth, gilt back, green endpapers, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
19348vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with a frontispiece, title in green and black, and 40 plates on 31; handsomely bound in full green morocco, back gilt with raised bands, uncut, illustration from dustwrapper mounted on new leaf at front, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation.
19328vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with coloured frontispiece, title in red and black, 4 fine coloured plates, 30 plates in monochrome and 2 illustrations in the text; original green cloth, gilt back, gilt top, uncut, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped, lightly age-soiled dustwrapper. With personal book-label on front free endpaper. This detailed standard reference includes a list of plants from 'The Feate of Gardening' (c.1440) and an extensive historical bibliography. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Hoyles I, p.206.
20048vo., First Edition, with title-vignette, numerous coloured and monochrome plates, illustrations in the text and pictorial endpapers; original red cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Includes an extensive bibliography.
19874to., First Edition, with a portrait frontispiece and very numerous coloured and monochrome photographs (many full-page) throughout, and pictorial endpapers, inscription on front free endpaper verso; green cloth, gilt back, covers lightly sunned at edges else a very good, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper.
19788vo., First Edition thus, with a portrait frontispiece and 4 plates; cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in the dustwrapper. EDITION LIMITED TO 500 NUMBERED COPIES (THIS COPY NO. 475).Much-needed re-issue in a single volume of the author's indispensable 'OId English Farming Books' '(1947) and 'More Old English Farming Books' (1950).
1972Sm. 8vo., First Edition, with 150 coloured illustrations in the text; original series binding of green cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in red, a near fine copy in unclipped, very lightly age-soiled dustwrapper. Observer 46. Code 1040.572. Marren & Carter, p.168-9.
1957Sm. 8vo., First Edition, with 100 plates in colour and 100 illustrations in monochrome in the text, neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper; original series binding of green cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in black, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly age-soile and with with small label scar on front wrapper. Observer 25. Code 532.856. Marren & Carter, p.160.
19358vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece and 15 plates; original cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly frayed at edges and with minor loss (just affecting lettering) at head of backstrip. Appendices include a list of plants introduced by the author to England from Asia, and a register of known plants from that region not in cultivation here.. Scarce in the dustwrapper.
19394to., First Edition, with coloured frontispiece, 12 plates in monochrome and 4 charts, endpapers moderately browned; green cloth, upper board and backstrip patterned and lettered in darker green, uncut, backstrip mildly else a very good, clean copy. Scarce work by a well-known professional horticulturalist from Westchester County.
19918vo., First Edition, with plates; cloth, gilt back,a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper
19358vo., First Edition, with decorative title in green and black, and illustrations in the text, free endpapers very lightly spotted; original ivory pictorial cloth, upper board blocked in green, backstrip lettered in green, covers lightly age-soiled else a very good, bright copy in price-clipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly frayed at lower edge, wanting lower half of backstrip, and with one closed tear on rear panel. Vita Sackville-West contributes chapters 9-12, based on her broadcasts from October 1933 to January 1934. EXTREMELY SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THE DUSTWRAPPER. Cross & Ravenscroft-Hulme, B16 (recording 'dustwrapper not seen').
19738vo. First Edition, with coloured and monochrome plates; green cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
19788vo. First Edition with plates; green cloth gilt back a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
19894to., First Edition, with numerous fine coloured photographs throughout, inscription on half-title; blue cloth, gilt back, blue endpapers, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
19168vo., First and Sole Edition, on laid paper, with a coloured frontispiece mounted on grained card, title in red and black, 2 coloured plates mounted on grained card, 40 full-page monochrome illustrations in the text and a folding plan on japon, title very lightly spotted; original green cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in darker green, backstrip sunned, upper hinge cracked (but binding entirely sound), a very good, clean copy. With 16pp publisher's catalogue at rear. The author's only work not be reissued. The work is divided into three parts. Part I gives general information on sowing, raising, characteristics and uses. Part II provides an alphabetical list, with descriptions and culture, of the best annuals and biennials. Part III gives a chart of colour and height, and selections for purposes and aspects. Arguably the scarcest of all Jekyll's works.
19918vo., Second Impression, with plates, contemporary inscription on title; burgundy cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, cream endpapers, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper.
19878vo., First Edition, with coloured and monochrome photographs throughout; pictorial wrappers, backstrip lightly sunned else a near fine copy. The catalogue lists 181 lots with index of artists.
19018vo., Third Impression, with frontispiece (original tissue guard present), title in red and black, and 52 plates on 49 from photographs by the author, blank preliminary lightly age-soiled; original mid-red buckram, upper board blocked and lettered in gilt, gilt back, uncut, neatly rebacked with old backstrip (sunned) laid down, laid endpapers, a very good, bright copy. Written to capitalise on the success of 'Wood and Garden' published in the previous year, Jekyll's second book is devoted to ornamental garden layout and practice for the home owner. First published in 1900.
19798vo., First Edition, with numerous plates; green cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper.
19468vo., First Edition, with frontispiece and illustrations in the text; orange cloth, upper board blocked in blind, backstrip lettered in black, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped, lightly age-soiled dustwrapper. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
19268vo., Best Edition, with frontispiece and plates; buff boards, oatmeal holland back with paper label printed in red and black, dark red top, a very good, bright, clean copy. With personal bookplate on front paste-down. Considerably revised and enlarged version of the original Medici edition of 1921.
18448 vols., 8vo., Second Edition, with many hundreds of fine wood-engraved illustrations (a number folding), some mild and occasional spotting (mainly marginal) in some plate volumes; original green cloth, boards elaborately framed and blocked in blind, gilt back, ivory endpapers, uncut, covers a little age-soiled, backstrips lightly browned, a few joints lightly rubbed else a very good, bright, clean, firm set. Vols I-IV: text; Vols V-VIII: plates. Freeman 2319.
