Gardening from Lansdowne Books

Country Life. London. 1914 (3rd) Tall 8vo. Gertrude Jekyll's advice and planning for flower gardens. A gardening classic. In blue cloth covers with gilt to spine and front. Profusely ill. Photo ills. & planting diagrams, some fold out. With colour frontis plate. Foldout diagrams and protected colour illustration with tissue paper and numerous b/w photo ills. Quality pages with some… Read more about this item

1st Edition Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine, unclipped dustwrapper now in protective mylar. Clean, tight and unmarked. Summary: Anyone who has ever created a garden knows that it is a process replete with drama: there's the feverish excitement of drawing up plans and making lists of plants; the bleak depression of realizing that the plans will have to be… Read more about this item

1st Edition Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine, unclipped dustwrapper now in protective mylar. Clean, tight and unmarked. B&W illustrations with decorative endpages. When Beverley Nichols first published Garden Open Today in 1963, he was already well known for his "garden adventure" books such as Down the Garden Path and Merry Hall, whose unforgettable characters still live in the imaginations… Read more about this item

1st Edition Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Cloth boards. No bumping, fading or wear. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound, pages and edges are clean and bright. Clean endpapers - no inscriptions or marks. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine, unclipped in archival quality removable mylar cover. Illustrated with drawings by Val Biro. Foreword by Roy C. Facsimile of the original edition which… Read more about this item

Condition: As New. 2005. Hardcover. Profiles over 4,000 varieties of this popular and striking plant. Illustrated with over 2,200 colour photographs, each entry includes: a description of the plant and flower colour; notes on hardiness, height and spread, and flowering time; advice on cultivation and proven performers; the name of the parent plants, the raiser and similar varieties. Overall a fine copy.… Read more about this item

Orig. cloth with Spine gilt. With 16 col. plates, 19 b/w plates, and illust. endpapers. 1st Edition very good hardback with very good unclipped dustwrapper now in protective mylar. This book has chapters on gardens for food and survival; gardening pioneers; gardens for decoration; gardens for show; parks & gardens.

Limited Edition. Copy number 216 of a limited edition of 275 copies signed by the author of which 260 are for sale. Clean and firmly bound, brown boards with a small bee in gilt. Plain brown slipcase with small bee in gilt on the front, also present in very good condition. Signed by Author/Illustrator Published by Women's Committee of the National Trust… Read more about this item

First Edition Hardcover. Slight bumping to cloth with little wear to the head and foot of the spine; edges slightly foxed; scattered foxing. Otherwise a sound copy. Jekyll, Gertrude, 1843-1932 Other authors/contributors Mawley, Edward. Subjects : Roses. | Rose culture -- Great Britain.

Hardcover. Presumed 1st Edition. Condition: V.G+ . Unclipped Dust Jacket Condition: G. D/J protected by a clear removable sleeve. Cloth boards and pages clean and tight. Overall aIl a very well-preserved copy. Includes index.Subjects : Annuals (Plants) | Biennials (Plants) | Flower gardening.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 8th edition. pale blue cloth. no dust jacket. colour frontispiece. many b/w illustrations plus fold-out plans. cloth lightly worn at edges but a good tight and clean copy with only light foxing. Contents : [Color Scheme in the flower garden][March Studey & the Border of Early Bulbs; The Wood; The Spring Garden; Between Spring & Summer;… Read more about this item

1st edition. Near fine cloth boards in D/J now mylar-sleeved. Not price clipped. Remains particularly well-preserved overall with pages clean and tight. Black and white illustrations, numerous colour plates,

Original gilt lettered pictorial cloth (Fine), slipcase (Fine). , illus with coloured photos (no inscriptions). First Folio Society edition hard back binding in publisher's original colour printed panoramic cloth, gilt and black back, Venetian red end sheets. Contains double colour frontispiece, [xi], 250 pp with colour illustrations throughout. Fine condition book in Fine condition open fronted slip case.

Green Boards with gilt lettering to spine. As New Dust Jacket unclipped and in Mylar protective covering. 198 pages : numerous illustrations (some color), plans ; 27 x 30 cm. A clean and tight copy. Gardens include: Beaufront' Ross, Tas. 'Woolmers' Longford, Tas. 'Lindsay Park' Angaston, S.A. 'Delatite' Mansfield, Vic. 'Springfield' Goulburn, N.S.W. 'Beleura' Mornington, Vic. 'Government House' Perth "Rippon… Read more about this item

First edition. With a photogravure frontispiece and 12 lovely tissue-guarded plates by E. C. Peixotto. Publisher's original dark green cloth beautifully decorated on the upper cover and spine after designs by Margaret Armstrong. The lettering on both the cover and spine is in gilt. A handsome and bright copy of this lovely book, internally very fresh and clean. The pages… Read more about this item

London & Toronto, J. M. Dent; New York, E- P. Dutton & Co., 1928. First English language edition. Very well Illustrated throughout with 600 black-and-white illustrations, drawings and photographs. Dark Blue cloth covers with Gilt Peacock and Fountain Designs to fronts and spines. Top page edges Dark Green. Vol 1, 459 Pages and Vol 2, 486. 11" Tall. No inscriptions. The… Read more about this item

Signed by the author. As new with dust jacket in protective Mylar covering. This fine book offers Francis' account of his ownership of Cloudehill provides extraordinary details of the more technical aspects of the iconic garden, including plantings, structural design, experiments and failures, the triumphs and disappointments associated with gardening. 300 colour illustrations 264 pages Heavy item may require extra shipping

London: Gurney and Jackson, 1914. New edition. Hardcover. Very Good condition to which is added a supplement containing 180 figures of recently discovered flowering plants by John W Salter and the Ferns, Horsetails and Club-Mosses by John E Sowerby. Described with an introduction and a key to the natural orders By C. Pierpoint Johnson. Weight 1.6

Introduction by Gertrude Jekyll. London: 1924, First edition. Illus. w. 47 color plates from flower paintings by Miss M. Walter Anson and 11 halftone plates from photographs of gardens.