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Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. 1st Edition. **Bundle Up & Save On Postage** Text has very light shelfwear at bottom spine edge, otherwise a very nice hard cover copy in dust jacket, without flaw. 9.25 X 7" unpaginated (approx 130 pages). This charming flower calendar was created in 1913 by Agnes Katherine Landale {1851 - 1916). She lived in the pretty Surrey (UK) village of Limpsfield in a large house, where a team of eight gardeners tended a garden overflowing with plants in an abundance of colour. Agnes took inspiration from this remarkable garden to create this lavish calendar. Every page blossoms with hand-painted watercolour illustrations of seasonal plants for each day of the year and poems for every week of the year. Agnes Katherine Landale - watercolour paintings (illustratore).…

Cloth. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. First Edition. Well illustrated, horizontal octavo, pp [c.150], very clkean internally, green cloth in excellent condition, in a very goo dustwrapper. ["This charming flower calendar is a facsimile edition of a hand-illustrated manuscript created in 1913 by A K Landale. Agnes Katherine Landale, or Aggie as she was known to her family and friends, was married to an Indian merchant with a Scottish background. She lived in the pretty Surrey village of Limpsfield in a large house, where a team of eight gardeners tended a large garden with far-reaching views down to a lake and the village church beyond. It had an abundance of colour overflowing with plants. An enormous greenhouse was crammed with peaches, nectarines and grapes. Aggie took inspiration from this remarkable garden to create this lavish calendar. Every page blossoms with hand-painted watercolour illustrations of seasonal plants for each day of the year and hand-drawn poems for every week of the year."].…

Hardcover. Condizione: New. Aggie took inspiration from this remarkable garden to create this lavish calendar. Every page blossoms with hand-painted watercolor illustrations of seasonal plants and hand-drawn poems for every week of the year.