Gardens 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

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

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. 1st Edition. Condition: NF. Unclipped Dust Jacket Condition: NF. Cloth boards with pages clean and tight. Overall a very nice copy. "Published in collaboration with the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. "Includes index. In 1871 Marianne North escaped the swaddling of Victorian society and departed on her first expedition to make a pictorial record of the tropical and exotic plants… Read more about this item

1st edition. Very Good octavo with card covers & 32pp with collected and lithographed illustrations. Signed by Herbert Dickens on the title-page. And also signed to Jas Barr Esq. with compliments H P Dickens Xmas 1933. Well-preserved with pages clean and tight some browning with age. Overall a very good copy.

Hardcover. 1st Edition As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. Unclipped D/j protected by a clear removable sleeve. Red cloth boards with pages clean and tight. Fine quality paper. A near fine copy. This book may be collected at Port Fairy, Victoria. A collection of Sir Roy Strong's articles on all aspects of gardens and gardening. A mixture of old and… 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,

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