The Marches. The New Naturalist Library #118.
London: Collins, 2011. 8vo. First edition. Original green cloth, gilt. Jacket design by Robert Gillmor. Mint in dust-wrapper.
Natural History & Gardening
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Down the River.
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1937. 4to. First edition (with second state dust-wrapper). Original navy cloth, gilt. With 83 Engravings on Wood by Agnes Miller Parker. Slightly foxed d/w with some rubbing along edges and a very short closed tear to the top edge of the upper panel. Fine in near.....
Through the Woods. The English Woodland - April to April.
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1936. 4to. First edition. Original rust red cloth, gilt. With 73 Engravings on Wood by Agnes Miller Parker. Spine slightly faded. Corner tips and the head of the spine pushed. Neat ink presentation on fly dated Christmas 1942. Near fine.
Landscape and Ideology. The English Rustic Tradition, 1740-1860.
Berkeley, Los Angeles & London: University of California Press, 1986. 4to. First edition. Original green cloth, gilt. Illustrated throughout in black and white with one section of colour plates. Fine in fine dust-wrapper.
The Natural History Prose Writings of John Clare. Edited by Margaret Grainger.
Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1983. 8vo. First edition. Original navy cloth, gilt. With plates and maps. D/w very slightly faded on the spine and with a small round mark from a price-sticker to the front flap. Fine in near fine dust-wrapper. "The first full critical edition of John Clare's natural.....
Dragonflies (The New Naturalist Library).
London: Collins, 2008. 8vo. Limited edition. #65 of 250 copies bound in full leather and issued in a cloth slipcase. Blind-stamped 'NN' monogram to upper board. Gilt lettering to spine with two raised bands. All edges gilt. Publisher's tipped-in limitation note signed by Stephen Brooks. With many colour photographs by.....
The Garden at Chatsworth.
London: Frances Lincoln, 1999. 4to. First edition. Original black cloth. Photographs by Gary Rogers. Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white. Blind embossed round ownership on half-title. Signed by the author on half-title. Fine in fine dust-wrapper. Chatsworth Garden guide (c. 1999) loosely inserted.
A History of Garden Art. Edited by Walter P. Wright. Translated from the German by Mrs. Archer-Hind.
London, Toronto & New York: J. M. Dent & Sons Limited and E. P. Dutton & Co. Ltd, 1928. 4to. 2 volumes, set. First English language edition. First published in Germany in 1913. Original green buckram, gilt. With over 600 illustrations in black and white. Covers rather faded. Two book.....
The Book of Garden Ornament.
London: J. M. Dent and Sons Limited, 1974. 4to. First edition. Original green cloth, gilt. Illustrated throughout in black and white. D/w has one very short closed tear to the top edge of the back panel. Fine in near fine dust-wrapper. Covering the expected statues, urns, sundials and fountains but.....
Some English Gardens.
London: Longmans, Green and Co. Ltd, 1935. 4to. New edition. First published in 1904. Original blue cloth, gilt. Tissue-guarded, colour plates reproducing water-colours by George S. Elgood, R.I. throughout. Covers slightly rubbed and corner tips pushed. Jekyll's notes accompany the illustrations. Several Scottish and Irish gardens are included despite the.....
Roses for English Gardens.
London: Country Life and George Newnes, Ltd, 1902. 8vo. First edition. Original tan buckram, gilt. Numerous black and white photographic plates. Covers patchily faded and stained. Pencil ownership, dated 1902, on front pastedown. Foxing to page edges throughout. Very good.
Garden Ornament.
London: Country Life, 1918. Folio. First edition. Original navy cloth, gilt. Top edge gilt. Marbled paper endpapers. Illustrated throughout with black and white photographs and with a tipped-in, water-colour frontispiece by George S. Elgood. Covers a little rubbed. Frontispiece mount is rather foxed. Near fine. Sundials, pergolas, bridges, loggias, treillage.....
The New Naturalists. Half a Century of British Natural History.
London: HarperCollins, 1995. 8vo. First edition. Paperback issue (simultaneous with the hardcover edition). Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white. Small faint stain to fore edge and half title. Bottom corner of the back cover slightly creased. In non-adhesive clear covering. Near fine. 'The New Naturalists reveals for the.....
Ferns (The New Naturalist Library). Their Habitats in the British and Irish Landscape.
London: Collins, 1988. 8vo. First edition. Original green cloth, gilt. D/w not price-clipped. Price given as £30.00. With 'Collins' at the foot of the spine. With 21 colour photographs, and over 160 photographs and diagrams in black and white. Jacket by Robert Gillmor. D/w slightly faded on spine, as usual.....
The Red Books of Humphry Repton. Antony House (Cornwall), Attingham Park (Shropshire), Sherringham Hall (Norfolk) & Explanatory Volume by Edward Malins.
London: The Basilisk Press, 1976. Folio & 4to. 4 volumes, set. (3 quarto volumes and 1 folio). Limited edition facsimiles. #301 of 515 sets (of which 500 were for sale). Quarter red morocco with marbled boards, gilt, housed in individual slipcases within a brown box. The paper has been specially.....
Capability Brown. With an Introduction by Christopher Hussey.
London: Faber and Faber, 1975. 4to. New edition. First published in 1950. Original green cloth, gilt. Illustrated with sections of black and white, and a few colour, photographic plates. D/w price-clipped. Fine in near fine dust-wrapper. A completely rewritten account of the master of English landscape gardening and still the.....
Capability Brown. With an Introduction by Christopher Hussey.
London: Country Life Ltd, 1950. 4to. First edition. Original sand cloth, gilt. Colour frontispiece and black and white photographic plates. D/w with a few nicks and chips along top and bottom edges and remains of tape repair at head of spine. Slight foxing to back panel. Near fine in very.....
Gardens Old & New. The Country House & Its Garden Environment. The Third Volume.
London: Country Life, [1905]. Folio. First edition. Original navy cloth, gilt. All edges gilt. Illustrated with black and white photographs by Charles Latham. Covers rubbed at edges with a short tear to the head of the spine. Some of the gardens included in this volume are Arley Hall, Bowood, Canons.....
The Compleat Angler 1653-1676. Edited with an Introduction and Commentary by Jonquil Bevan.
Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1983. 8vo. First edition. Original navy cloth, gilt. Portrait frontispiece and thirteen illustrations. Fine in fine dust-wrapper. 'The present edition is the first to offer the 1653 Compleat Angler followed by the 1676 version [the fifth edition and the last one in the author's lifetime]'.
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