Plants with personality /
Major Patrick Millington Synge (1910-1982)
Category
Books
Date
1939
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Sissinghurst Castle Garden, Kent
NT 3187939
Summary
Bibliographic description
[3]-243, [1] p., plates : ill., col. front. ; 24 cm. Loosely inserted: 1. publisher’s printed review copy slip, with typescript price: 12/6; and date: November 17th 1939; 2. signed autograph letter from E.B.C. Thornett to V. Sackville-West, regarding Puya Alpestris with reference to this book; headed: 29 Ledmore Road, Charlton Kings, Cheltenham; dated: 24 February 1958; 3. ticket to RHS Chelsea show, 1947, issued to: The Hon. Mrs. Harold Nicholson [sic]. Pencil text marking, with brief rear endpaper page references. Provenance: pastedown inscribed "V.S-W. / Sissinghurst Nov. 1939" [i.e. Vita Sackville-West, 1892-1962]. Binding: green publisher's cloth, gold lettered spine.
Makers and roles
Major Patrick Millington Synge (1910-1982)