Garden Ornament
JEKYLL, Gertrude
BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN PUBLISHER'S BUCKRAM
Published: Country Life George Newnes and Charles Scribner, 1918
Stock code: 37393
Price: £390.00
Folio, First Edition, with coloured frontispiece (original tissue guard present), title in red and black, title-vignette, and many hundreds of fine photographs (many full-page), marbled endpapers, marbled endpapers; original blue buckram, upper board and backstrip lettered in gilt, gilt edges, joints and extremities mildly rubbed as usual, covers lightly age-marked and faded else very good, clean copy.
This magnificent standard reference comprises introductory text and a superb assembly of photographs of garden ornaments of every kind, including wood and iron gates, steps, balustrades, urns, vases, courts, paved ways, seats, loggias, orangeries, dovecotes, parterres, sundials, topiary, pergolas, treillage, canals, ponds, water gardens, bridges, fountains, dipping wells, borders, wall gardens, Japanese gardens and many more. The examples are chosen primarily from England, with a few from Italy. One of the finest garden books of the twentieth century. Scarce, especially in this condition.