Horace Walpole: gardenist; an edition of Walpole's The history of the modern taste in gardening, with an estimate of Walpole's contribution to landscape architecture
Isabel Wakelin Urban Chase
Category
Books
Date
1943
Materials
Place of origin
United States
Collection
Sissinghurst Castle Garden, Kent
NT 3165656
Summary
Bibliographic description
xxix, [1], 285, [1] p., plates : ill., plan ; 24 cm. Loosely inserted (p. 189): small square leaf with pencil manuscript notes and plant drawing. Pencil text marking, with final endpaper annotation and page references. Provenance: inscribed "V.S-W. / Sissinghurst / Dec. 1943" [i.e. Vita Sackville-West, 1892-1962] Binding: green publisher's cloth, gold lettered on blue spine block.
Makers and roles
Isabel Wakelin Urban Chase Horatio Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford (1717 - 1797)