Gardens for small country houses /
Sir Lawrence Weaver (1876 - 1930)
Category
Books
Date
1914
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Sissinghurst Castle Garden, Kent
NT 3188864
Summary
Bibliographic description
l, 262, [2], 16 p. : ill. ; 30 cm. Loosely inserted: nine leaves of pencil drawings (3 at initial opening, 1 at p.xxv, 1 at p.119, 4 at p.165 (incl. one heraldic drawing of leopard; three leaves are inscribed "Drawing by Lutyens" or similar [Sir Edwin Landseer Lutyens (1869-1944)]; 1 leaf of manuscript notes on copper pot (p.93); newspaper scrap pagemarker, p.191. $zPencil text marking, with rear endpaper annotation and page references. Provenance: small book label, with armorial in left panel; with red inked cypher in right panel: VNBNHN [i.e. Vita [Sackville-West] Nicolson (1892-1962), Benedict Nicolson (1914–1978), Harold Nicolson (1886-1968)]; inscribed: Long Barn / April 1915]. Binding: blue publisher's cloth, gold lettered.
Makers and roles
Sir Lawrence Weaver (1876 - 1930) Gertrude Jekyll (1843 - 1932)