Plants of the Bible /
Alexander Walter Anderson (1901 - 1986)
Category
Books
Date
1956
Materials
Collection
Sissinghurst Castle Garden, Kent
NT 3188302
Summary
Bibliographic description
72 p., plates : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 28 cm. Loosely inserted: 1. signed typescript letter from the Rev. Basil D. Cornish to "Lady Nicholson" [sic, i.e. Vita Sackville-West] thanking her for advice on parish embroideries; headed: St. John's Vicarage, Seven Kings, Ilford, Essex; dated: 12th January 1961. With a separate typescript list of completed designs. 2. news cutting, letters to The Observer, re. Lilies of the field, by Gabriele Tergit; attached to Durrant's Press Cuttings slip, dated: 8 Jan 1961. Pencil and ink text marking, with rear endpaper annotation and page references. Provenance: pastedown inscribed "V.S-W. / Sissinghurst" [i.e. Vita Sackville-West, 1892-1962]. Inscribed on endpaper: "With love from Anna." [i.e. Anna 'Mac' Macmillan]. Binding: publisher's cream paper on boards, gold lettered.
Makers and roles
Alexander Walter Anderson (1901 - 1986)