1914-1915 My Garden in Spring; My Garden in Summer; My Garden in Autumn and Winter
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Description
Colour Plates, First Edition, Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding, With Dustwrapper
All three volumes of British horticulturalist, plantsman and garden writer Edward Augustus Bowles's notable series of gardening guides.
The scarce first edition, first impression of all three of these beautifully illustrated works, each in the decorative publisher's original cloth binding.
My Garden in Spring, 1914, illustrated with sixteen colour plates, and with a further twenty-four monochrome plates. Collated, complete.
My Garden in Summer, 1914, illustrated with sixteen colour plates, and with a further twenty-four monochrome plates. Collated, complete.
In the very scarce publisher's original unclipped dust wrapper, My Garden in Autumn and Winter, 1915, illustrated with sixteen colour plates, and with a further twenty-four monochrome plates. Collated, complete.
These classic works of garden writing combine practical horticultural advice with vivid observation and personal reflection, celebrating the changing character of Bowles's garden at Myddelton House through the seasons.
Condition
In the publisher's original decorative cloth bindings, with unclipped dust wrapper to 'Autumn' unclipped. Externally, bright. Bumping to back strip heads and tails with rubbing to 'Summer' joints, otherwise externally excellent. Major loss to head of 'Autumn' dust wrapper, with further hole to back strip centre and major lot to back strip head, and further losses to wrap perimeters. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright.
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