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JAPANESE GARDENS.

JAPANESE GARDENS.

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JAPANESE GARDENS.

by Taylor, Basil, Mrs. (Harriet Osgood.)

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  • very good
  • Hardcover
  • first
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About This Item

London: Methuen, 1912. 298 pp, 10 1/4" H. Deep red cloth with gilt lettering/banding/decoration on spine and front board, top edge gilt. 28 tissue-covered colour plates (including frontispiece), mounted on beige stock with borders and captions (collated). Contents: Preface; On Japanese Gardens in General; Japanese Gardening History; Gardening Principles; Garden Stones; Garden Accessories (Lanterns and Pagodas); Garden Fences and Hedges; Garden Architecture (Gates, Summer-Houses, and Bridges); Wells, Water-Basins, etc.; Landscape Gardens; Green Gardens; Water Gardens and Dried-up Water Scenery; Miniature Gardens; Some Particular Gardens; Flower Arrangement; Garden Folk-Lore and Legends - (I); Ditto (2); Flower Festivals; The Four Seasons of Flowers. Light wrinkling and wear at top/bottom of spine; light wear at board corners; light toning to fore-edge and bottom of text block; front free endpaper has small creases at top corner, one tiny edge tear archiavally taped and a tiny hole at bottom corner; very small hole in tissue of plate opposite page 244 - piece is glued to margin of page 244; rear free endpaper has small creases at top/bottom corner and a tiny hole at top corner - tiny hole a top corner of preceeding page also; paper is split on inside rear hinge but holding firmly.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. Illus. by Walter Tyndale..

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Bookseller
Capricorn Books CA (CA)
Bookseller's Inventory #
29660
Title
JAPANESE GARDENS.
Author
Taylor, Basil, Mrs. (Harriet Osgood.)
Illustrator
Walter Tyndale.
Format/Binding
Hardcover
Book Condition
Used - Very Good
Edition
First Edition
Publisher
Methuen
Place of Publication
London
Date Published
1912
Keywords
Japanese Gardening, Japanese Gardens, Early 20th Century, Colour Plate Books, Gardening Principles, garden Stones, Fences, Hedges, Accessories, Lanterns, Pagodas, Fences, Hedges, garden Architecture, Gates, Summer-Houses, Bridges, Wells, Water Basins, Lan
Bookseller catalogs
Natural History; History and Travel; Gardening; Myths, Legends & Fantasy;

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Plate
Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
First Edition
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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...
Miniature
A book that is less then 3 inches in width and ...
Cloth
"Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
Top Edge Gilt
Top edge gilt refers to the practice of applying gold or a gold-like finish to the top of the text block (the edges the pages...
Hinge
The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.

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