On the making of gardens /
Sir George Reresby Sitwell, 4th Baronet Sitwell (1860-1943)
Category
Books
Date
1949
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Sissinghurst Castle Garden, Kent
NT 3187948
Summary
Bibliographic description
xvi, 113, [3] p., plates : ill. ; 24 cm. Pencil text marking, with rear endpaper annotation and page references. Loosely inserted: news cutting of V. Sackville-West's review of the work, 'Neptune with cherubs'; attached to Durrant's Press Cuttings slip, The Spectator, dated: 16 Dec 1946; inscribed: V. Sackville-West. Endpaper inscribed: Spectator. Provenance: pastedown inscribed "V.S-W. / Sissinghurst" [i.e. Vita Sackville-West, 1892-1962]. Binding: gold lettered and decorated.
Makers and roles
Sir George Reresby Sitwell, 4th Baronet Sitwell (1860-1943) Sir Francis Osbert Sacheverell Sitwell, 5th Baronet Sitwell (1892-1969) John Piper (Epsom 1903 – Henley-on-Thames 1992)