Product Description
Limited Edition of 280 numbered copies on hand made paper printed at The University Press, Oxford, This copy No.
102 signed by W.
Robinson to limitation page.
8vo, xx + pp304 with 77 b/w illustrations throughout the text, complete with b/w frontis with tissue guard and a further 13 full page b/w plates, all illustrated by Alfred Parsons.
Hardcover issued without dust jacket.
Bound in full vellum signed binding by Birdsdall with gilt titles to spine and gilt decorations and tooled lines to boards in very good condition with a little shelf wear to top & tail of spine and tips and some small marks to vellum with a small red mark to back board and a little rubbing to gilt titles.
Inside, foxing to paste downs and free end papers with all other pages and plates in very good clean and bright condition with the odd spot to some pages.
William Robinson, a long-time friend of Gertrude Jekyll, is renowned for his 'wild' and 'natural' gardening methods and debunking of unnatural and formal planting schemes.
He nurtured mixed herbaceous borders with year-round colour, introduced alpines and exotic species, and planted trees for contrasting texture and pleasing vistas.
Ahead of his time and considered a "trailblazer" Robinson was passionate about the importance of green open spaces for human health and wellbeing as the Industrial Revolution swept through Britain, and was ahead of his time in promoting sustainability and biodiversity.
For added interest to front pastedown is the armorial bookplate of "Arthur T.
& Magdalen F.
Bevan" made for their marriage on the 6th October, 1870.
A nice copy of this very scarce signed limited edition
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