Colour Schemes for The Flower Garden
by Gertrude Jekyll
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
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BATH, Somerset, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Country Life Ltd, 1925. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 9" by 6". Not Stated. A smart sixth edition of this delightful gardening guide, with the vanishingly scarce unclipped dust wrapper. Sixth edition. With the vanishingly scarce original unclipped dust wrapper. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece and one hundred and twenty-six black-and-white plates, six of which are folding. Collated complete. A detailed guide to planning a colour scheme for your flower garden, with commentary on the changing colours of the seasons, the hardy flower border, bedding plants, and more. Written by Gertrude Jekyll, a British horticulturist, garden designer, craftswoman, photographer, writer and artist who created over four hundred gardens in the United Kingdom, Europe and the United States. In the original green cloth binding. Externally, very smart with light shelf wear and minor fading to the extremities. Original unclipped dust wrapper is also smart with light shelf wear and minor chipping resulting in light loss to the head and tail of the spine. Sunning to the spine and the extremities. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with light scattered spotting. Contemporary ink inscription to the front endpaper. Very Good
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Details
- Bookseller
- Rooke Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 884T72
- Title
- Colour Schemes for The Flower Garden
- Author
- Gertrude Jekyll
- Illustrator
- Not Stated
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Country Life Ltd
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1925
- Size
- 9" by 6"
- Keywords
- Colour Schemes Flower Garden Schemes
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About the Seller
Rooke Books
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BATH, Somerset
About Rooke Books
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We are a small team dedicated to bringing you very scarce books at reasonable prices. We specialise in rare and hard to come by works on all subjects over the last 500 years, together with modern first editions and decorative sets and bindings. Our library has something for every interest and specialism. We deliver worldwide using a fully tracked and insured courier delivery service.
Where are We?
Based in the literary city of Bath, our offices are housed in the Eastern Dispensary. Built in 1845, the building originally existed as a charitable institution providing medical care. The building now houses our collection of over twenty thousand books and has five full time members of staff.
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- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- 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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.