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    By Eleanour Sinclair Rohde
    London   Herbert Jenkins Limited
    8.5" by 6" xiv, 300; 242, (6)pp.
    Two smart volumes of garden commentary from British gardener and garden designed Eleanour Sinclair Rohde.
    By Eleanour Sinclair Rohde

    1926-1927 A Garden of Herbs & Garden-Craft in the Bible and Other Essays

    London   Herbert Jenkins Limited
    8.5" by 6" xiv, 300; 242, (6)pp.
    Two smart volumes of garden commentary from British gardener and garden designed Eleanour Sinclair Rohde.
    £55.00
    : 1kgs / : 965T85
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    First Edition, Illustrated, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding

    Two volumes. Written by Eleanour Sophie Sinclair Rohde, a British gardener, garden designer, and horticultural writer who authored thirty books on gardening between 1913 and 1948. She is best known for her book The Scented Garden, published in 1931. This set contains: A Garden of Herbs, 1926. Revised and enlarged edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece and eight images across seven plates. Collated complete. With coverage of how to plan a herb garden, sundry herbs, pottages, herb puddings, drinks and wines, on picking and drying herbs and their scents. Garden-Craft in the Bible and Other Essays, 1927. First edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece and twenty-five images across twenty-three plates. Collated complete. Containing sixteen essays, which include 'Old Bee Books', 'Garden Music', 'The Charm of the Sundial', 'The Elizabethan Garden', 'Gardens of the Pharoahs', and 'Oxford Gardens'. With the publisher's advertisements to the rear.

    Condition

    In the original quarter cloth binding. Externally, smart with light rubbing and minor bumping to the extremities. Light fading to the spines with sunning to the spine labels and the odd small mark to the boards. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with the odd spot. Light spotting to the first and last few pages. The plate facing page four of A Garden of Herbs is detached but present. Previous owner's bookplate to the front endpaper of Garden-Craft in the Bible.

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