Wild flowers : botanising in Britain /
John Scott Lennox Gilmour (1906-1986)
Category
Books
Date
1954
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Sissinghurst Castle Garden, Kent
NT 3187813
Summary
Bibliographic description
xiv, 242 p, plates : ill. (some col.) ; 23 cm. Pencil text marking, with brief rear endpaper page references. Loosely inserted: manuscript draft of review of this work on [2]p. leaf of lined paper. Cutting of Observer review, 'Our flora' by V. Sackville-West, 18 Jul 1954, attached to Durrant's Press Cuttings slip also (at p.55): publisher’s printed review copy slip, with typescript price: 25/-; and date: 10th May, 1954. Provenance: pastedown inscribed "V.S-W. / Sissinghurst May 1954 / Observer for review" [i.e. Vita Sackville-West, 1892-1962]. Binding: green publisher's cloth, gold lettered spine.
Makers and roles
John Scott Lennox Gilmour (1906-1986) John Scott Lennox Gilmour (1906-1986) Stuart Max Walters