Product Description
Engraved frontispiece with loose tissue guard, pp.
236, pages untrimmed, original green and black decorated cloth, gilt medallions to both upper and lower covers, gilt lettering and decoration to spine, bevelled edges.
Old ownership to both the front paste-down and the top of the title page, no other internal markings but there is some spotting to the front endpapers, including the half-title and also the final 3 leaves.
Binding firm and covers in very good, bright condition with just very slight wear to head and tail of spine.
This is a very good example of the rare first edition.
Although the first edition was not illustrated, it was nevertheless a very important and pioneering book in the history and evolution of garden design.
It challenged the conventions of Victorian garden making and advocated a naturalistic style in which hardy plants are arranged so as to mimic the wild landscape.
Ahead of its time, it changed gardening for ever.
Size: small 8vo.
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