Gardens for small country houses / by Gertrude Jekyll & Lawrence Weaver.
Gertrude Jekyll (1843 - 1932)
Category
Books
Date
1927
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3124332
Summary
Bibliographic description
l, 262, [2] p. : ill., col. front., plans ; 30 cm. Pencil numbers and codes on front pastedown: "29/8", "844/32", "ktv", "375" and "102 105". Pencil price (erased) on front pastedown: "25/-". Ephemera: two loosely inserted press cuttings: (1) from 'The Daily Mail', 10 December 1932, on the death of Gertrude Jekyll; (2) from "The Sunday Times", 15 December 1935, a review of a book on Stafford House. Provenance: Pencil inscription on front free endpaper: "M.G. Coppins[?]". Twentieth-century armorial bookplate (large variant), signed Badeley 1930: ‘Urban Huttleston Rogers Lord Fairhaven’ [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Binding: Twentieth-century full publisher's blue cloth; quadruple interwoven blind fillets to form an outer border on upper board; gilt lettered upper board and spine.
Makers and roles
Gertrude Jekyll (1843 - 1932), author Sir Lawrence Weaver (1876 - 1930), author