Garden Ornament
by Jekyll, Gertrude
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair
- Seller
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Greensboro, North Carolina, United States
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About This Item
London: Published at the Offices of "Country Life, 1918. Hardcover. Fair. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Folio. 460 pages, indexed. Hardcover bound in blue cloth. The binding is quite worn and stained but sound. There is a 2 inch tear on the right side of the headcap at the top of the spine. Rear hinge is starting, and the binding is a bit shaken. All edges gilt. A sound copy with secure hinges. Text is clean. tipped in color frontis. Illustrated throughout with black and white photos. SIgned on the half title by William Lanier Hunt. William Lanier Hunt (1906-1996) was the "Dean of Southern Horticulture." He donated land along the Morgan Creek in southern Orange County, NC to the North Carolina Botanical Garden and is now known as the Hunt Arboretum.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Pages Past Used and Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 046835
- Title
- Garden Ornament
- Author
- Jekyll, Gertrude
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Published at the Offices of "Country Life
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1918
- Size
- Folio - over 12 - 15" tall
- Weight
- 9.50 lbs
- Keywords
- 1918; Lawrence Weaver; Houses; House; Garden; Gardens; E. L. Lutyens; Country Life; English; England; Classic; Cottages; Stairs; Gates; Architecture; Architectural; Great Britain; British; England; English; William Lanier Hunt; North Carolina Botanical Ga
- Bookseller catalogs
- Botany & Horticulture; Architecture; Great Britain;
Terms of Sale
Pages Past Used and Rare Books
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About the Seller
Pages Past Used and Rare Books
Biblio member since 2017
Greensboro, North Carolina
About Pages Past Used and Rare Books
Pages Past is a small used & rare bookshop located a few blocks from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Since 1996 we have been serving the Triad community as well as customers from around the world. We have around 15-20,000 volumes in our shop. We specialize in North Carolina, Virginia, Civil War, Old Leather, Christianity, Eastern and Western Philosophies, and the simply unusual. We very likely have the oldest books in Greensboro; we keep a nice selection of antiquarian volumes and scholarly books.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Folio
- A folio usually indicates a large book size of 15" in height or larger when used in the context of a book description. Further,...
- Tipped In
- Tipped In is used to describe something which has been glued into a book. Tipped-in items can include photos, book plates,...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- 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....
- 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...
- 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...
- Shaken
- A hardcover in which the text block is loose, but still attached to the binding.
- Half Title
- The blank front page which appears just prior to the title page, and typically contains only the title of the book, although, at...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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