Gertrude jekyll intro (5 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: fine. First edition thus. First printing of this edition, with introduction and revised by Graham Stuart Thomas. Fine in fine dust jacket. Hardcover. xxv with glossary+ 177 pp. with index. Profusely illustrated with black and white photos and with 12 color plates. Originally published in London in 1901, Jekyll's "Wall and Water Gardens" is a guide to using mountain, marsh, and eater plants in home gardening. In the first part, she explains how to build walls with ot without mortar, how to terrace, and how to use sun and shade to best advantage. The second part explains techniques for planting in water, at the water's edge, and in marshland.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: fine. First edition thus. First printing of this edition, introduced and revised by Graham Stuart Thomas. Hardcover. xxx with glossary + 159 pp. with index. Profusely illustrated with black and white photos and with diagrams as well as 13 color plates. Originally published in London in 1908, this is Jekyll's definitive statement on how a garden can look its best, using the principles of color for year round pleasure. It was Jekyll's aim to approach the garden as a canvas and to plant flowers in combinations that form a painting---a work of art. her "drifts of color" were compared to Monet's garden paintings with this difference: Monet planted his gardens to paint them while Jekyll's gardens WERE her paintings.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: fine. First edition thus. First edition thus with introduction and revised by Graham Stuart Thomas. Fine in fine dust jacket. Hardcover. xxvi+ 166 pp. Profusely illustrated with black and white and with 14 additional color photographs. First published in London in 1902 under title " Roses For The English Garden" Gertrude Jekyll brings her garden sense to the best loved flower of all. In collaboration with practical rose gardener Edward Mawley, she shows the nearly limitless possibilities for planting between walls, on pergolas, along wood posts, on verandas, and on trees, never instructing as much as inspiring.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Dark green cloth, spine panel lettered in gilt. xxxv,288 pp., illus. w/ 53 guarded plates containing 300 drawings in color and others in b&w, also b&w photographic plates. Mild rubbing to corners, spine extremities, and joints. Text block edges a bit toned by age. Former owner's book plate mounted inside front cover; front hinge shows amateur but effective mend. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Book.…

Condizione: VG-, no DJ (see notes). 1st. small 4to. 288pp. NO INTERNATIONAL OR PRIORITY. 1/2" fabric tear top spine, P O name. Solid copy, but the tear brings it down a grade.