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1912 Royal Gardens
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Description
Colour Plates, First Edition, Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding
The first edition.
A charming study on the beauties of the gardens at Royal palaces across Britain, "from daffodils at Windsor Castle" to "autumn flowers at Sandringham".
With chapters on Windsor Castle, Bagshot Park, Hampton Court, Osborne, Marlborough House, Kensington Palace, Holyrood Palace, Claremont, and Sandringham.
Illustrated with a colour frontispiece, thirty-one colour plates, and five monochrome plates. Collated, complete.
Written and illustrated by Cyril Ward.
Presentation label from Johnson Brothers (Dyers) Ltd to Miss Bailey to the front paste down, dated December 1921.
Condition
In the original publisher's cloth binding. Externally, smart. Light bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities. Minor rubbing to the joints. A few light marks to the cloth. Spine is faded. Spots to the fore edge. Label to the front paste down. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and generally clean with scattered spots.
Very Good
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