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Tabor, Grace

Old-Fashioned Gardening; a History and a Reconstruction

1913

118.44 €

Horizon Books

(Toronto, Canada)

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Year of publication
1913
Place of printing
New York. McBride, Nast & Company
Author
Tabor, Grace
Edition
First Edition.
Keyword
Gardening - Landscaping Women Naturalists
Languages
English
First edition
Yes

Description

roy 8vo; xviii, 263 pp, frontis with tissue guard, illus, plates, tinted plans, good bibliog, index. original cloth with gilt title lettering in gilted border on cover and gilt spine title lettering, top edge gilted, nice chapter head pieces, spine end a bit frayed, near fine, interior is clean and fine. A picture of this book is available upon request b A very well-illustrated work with plates in decorative borders. Plates include buildings, gardens, entrance ways, ornaments, etc. In two parts, the first on history includes Spanish gardens in the semi-tropics, English gardens of gentlemen adventurers, New Amsterdam housewive's gardens, puritan gardens, catholick and quaker gardens, presidents' gardens, etc, with the reconstruction section on old-fashioned gardens, design, inclosures, old flowers, ornaments, reproducing the old fashioned gardens.