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Livres anciens et modernes

Tabor, Grace

Old-Fashioned Gardening; a History and a Reconstruction

1913

118,44 €

Horizon Books

(Toronto, Canada)

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Détails

Année
1913
Lieu d'édition
New York. McBride, Nast & Company
Auteur
Tabor, Grace
Edition
First Edition.
Thème
Gardening - Landscaping Women Naturalists
Langues
Anglais
Premiére Edition
Oui

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.