Roses for English gardens
Gertrude Jekyll (1843 - 1932)
Category
Books
Date
1902
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Nymans Estate, West Sussex
NT 3190059
Summary
Bibliographic description
xvi, 166 p., plates. ill.., front.. 24 cm. Provenance: inscribed "For Grandmama with best love from [?]B. 3/7/3". With a small Christmas gift card laid in "Mrs. Messel With love & best wishes from Greville & Joan". With a letter within an envelope laid in from Joan Tait, dated December 29th 1957, addressed to Mrs Messel: "I am so sorry that I have not written before to thank you for the beautiful present. You will, I know, be very sorry to hear that Greville is ill...". Binding: Publisher's red cloth (faded), gold lettered.
Makers and roles
Gertrude Jekyll (1843 - 1932), author Edward Mawley, author