The Colour Scheme in the Flower Garden.
Stock Code 113731
London, The 'Country Life' Library, 1911
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The first edition of Gertrude Jekyll's (1843-1932) important work on flower garden arrangement, which popularised the idea of warm and cold colour schemes.
Her younger brother, Walter Jekyll was a friend of Robert Louis Stevenson, who borrowed his surnamed for the eponymous character in his Gothic novella Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.
First edition, first impression; 8vo (23.5 x 15 cm); photographic plates; publisher's blue cloth, lettered in gilt to upper cover and spine, spine faded, slightly rubbed.
Her younger brother, Walter Jekyll was a friend of Robert Louis Stevenson, who borrowed his surnamed for the eponymous character in his Gothic novella Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.
First edition, first impression; 8vo (23.5 x 15 cm); photographic plates; publisher's blue cloth, lettered in gilt to upper cover and spine, spine faded, slightly rubbed.
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