A History of garden art. [By Marie Luise Gothein]. Edited by Walter P. Wright. Translated from the German by Mrs. Archer-Hind ... With over six hundred illustrations.
Marie Luise Schroeter Gothein(1863-1931)
Category
Books
Date
1928
Materials
Place of origin
Toronto
Collection
Mount Stewart, County Down
NT 3222064
Summary
Bibliographic description
2v., plates : ill., plans ; 27cm. Provenance: Vol. 1 inscribed "For darling mum with very many happy returns of the day from Mairi 3rd December 1939. For the fragrantissimum superbum flora of Mount Stewart"; vol. 2 inscribed "Darling mum for a very happy Christmas and verybest love from Mairi 1939 'Roburta Plowing flora Monureii'" [i.e. presented to Edith Helen Chaplin (1879-1959), m. in 1899 Charles Vane-Tempest-Stewart, 7th Marquess of Londonderry from 1915, by her youngest daughter Mairi Vane-Tempest-Stewart (1921-2009)]. Binding: Twentieth-century publisher's full blue cloth, gilt decorative centre-piece, gilt decoration and lettering on spine. Blue-top.
Makers and roles
Marie Luise Schroeter Gothein(1863-1931) Laura Pocock, Mrs Richard Dacre Archer-Hind (1849-1910) Laura Archer-Hind Walter Page Wright (1864 - 1940)