Simple flowers : "a millionaire for a few pence" /
Constance Spry (1886-1960)
Category
Books
Date
1957
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Sissinghurst Castle Garden, Kent
NT 3174560
Summary
Bibliographic description
viii, 70 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 22 cm. Loosely inserted autograph typescript letter from Constance Spry to Vita Sackville-West, headed: Winkfield Place, Windsor Forest; dated: September 10th, 1957. Provenance: titlepage inscribed: "With warm appreciation & grateful thanks for being allowed to quote from your lovely poem / from Constance Spry / September 1957". [Lines from V. Sackville-West's The garden quoted at head of introduction, including the book's subtitle.] Pastedown inscribed "V.S-W. / Sissinghurst Sept. 1957 from Constance Spry" [i.e. Vita Sackville-West, 1892-1962]. Binding: white publisher's cloth, gold lettered; with dust wrapper.
Makers and roles
Constance Spry (1886-1960)