Flower chronicles /
Buckner Hollingsworth
Category
Books
Date
1958
Materials
Place of origin
New Brunswick
Collection
Sissinghurst Castle Garden, Kent
NT 3188234
Summary
Bibliographic description
[10], 302 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. Pencil manuscript date and price on front pastedown: Sept 25 5 [dollars] / Times Lit Supp. Pencil text marking, with rear endpaper annotation and page references. Loosely inserted: 1. ink manuscript review on two line leaves in hand of V.S.W.; dated: Oct. 1948. 2. signed typescript letter from Patrick M. Synge, at Royal Horticultural Society, to V. Sackville-West, confirming that RHS is non Governmental. 3. signed typescript letter to Vita Sackville-West on TLS headed paper, signed 'Alan', requesting review, dated: 26th September 1958; 4. letter from Herbert Jenkins publishers sending copy, dated: 17th June, 1959; 5. typescript sheet of review extracts; 6. letter from HerbertJenkins, requesting review, signed T.W. Cash; dated: 11th June, 1959, with manuscript notes on reverse. Provenance: pastedown inscribed "V.S-W. / Sissinghurst" [i.e. Vita Sackville-West, 1892-1962]. Binding: publisher's quarter yellow cloth, with patterened blue paper on boards; gold lettered on blue spine block.
Makers and roles
Buckner Hollingsworth, author