Home and Garden.
Notes and thoughts practical and critical, or a worker in both.
Stock Code 114250
London, Longmans, Green, and Co., 1900
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Handsomely bound by Bickers & Son. An attractive copy of Home and Garden, Jekyll's follow-up to her extremely popular first book Wood and Garden. It provides instruction on gardening and craftsmanship, and gives details of the construction of her own house, Munstead Wood, which like much of her work took influence from the Arts and Crafts movement.
First edition; 8vo (22.5 x 15 cm); frontispiece and 53 plates after photographs by the author, woodcut device to title, bookplate to front free endpaper verso; contemporary half green morocco by Bickers & Son, marbled boards, gilt spine of meandering vines, top-edge gilt, others untrimmed, spine and extremities faded, spine ends and corners slightly rubbed, very good; xv, [1], 301, [1]pp.
First edition; 8vo (22.5 x 15 cm); frontispiece and 53 plates after photographs by the author, woodcut device to title, bookplate to front free endpaper verso; contemporary half green morocco by Bickers & Son, marbled boards, gilt spine of meandering vines, top-edge gilt, others untrimmed, spine and extremities faded, spine ends and corners slightly rubbed, very good; xv, [1], 301, [1]pp.
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