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...
Down the River.
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1937. 4to. First American edition. Original textured navy cloth. With 83 Engravings on Wood by Agnes Miller Parker. D/w a bit scuffed to spine and with a small patch of abrasion to the bottom corner of the back panel. Fine in near fine dust-wrapper.
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 Gardens of Italy. With Historical and Descriptive Notes by E. March Phillipps.
London: Country Life and George Newnes, Ltd, 1919. Folio. First edition thus. Revised and expanded from the edition of 1905 by Miss Evelyn March Phillipps (which was a smaller format in two volumes and had fewer illustrations). Original two-tone burgundy cloth, gilt. With a Venetian winged lion, gilt, to the...
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...
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...
Georgian Gardens. The Reign of Nature.
London: B.T. Batsford, 1983. 4to. First edition. Original green cloth, gilt. Illustrated in colour and black and white. Price-clipped d/w is very lightly rubbed at edges. Fine in near fine dust-wrapper.
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 title.
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...
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...
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...
Charles Bridgeman and the English Landscape Garden. Reprinted with supplementary plates and a catalogue of additional documents, drawings and attributions.
Newcastle upon Tyne: Elysium Press Publishers, 2002. 4to. First published in 2001. Original green cloth, gilt. Illustrated with large sections of black and white plates. Light staining to edges of text block and end papers. Blind embossed round ownership on title-page. Short closed tear to top edge of lower panel...
The Gardens of Russell Page.
New York: Stewart, Tabori & Chang Inc., 1991. 4to. First edition. Original green cloth, gilt. Photographs by Marina Schinz. Illustrated throughout in colour. Blind embossed round ownership on half-title. Fine in fine dust-wrapper.
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