A Garden of Herbs

Published by Medici Society, London, 1922

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The popular edition of a charming work that helped established the modern English herb garden as we see it today, outlining its multiple purposes. The popular edition of A Garden of Herbs: Being a Practical Handbook to the Making of an Old English Herb Garden: Together with Numerous Receipts from Contemporary Authorities, written by Horticultural writer and gardening expert Eleanor Sinclair Rohde Published in 1922, first published in 1920. In the publisher's original blue cloth, with in-text garden knot designs between leaves pp.21-28. A charming work that went through numerous subsequent editions, Rohde popularised the modern English herb garden as we see it today. She stresses the multiple purposes that a herb garden can provide other than aesthetic beauty, such as for medicinal, food, and drink purposes. In the publisher's original blue cloth. Externally, mostly smart, with a mark to the rear board, and a couple of faint marks to extremities. Slight rubbing to joints and edges. Bumping to the head and tail of the spine, and to the extremities. Faint offsetting to free end papers. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Very Good. …

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Title
A Garden of Herbs
Author
Eleanor Sinclair Rohde
Publisher
Medici Society, London
Publication year
1922
Condition
Very Good
Book Type
book
Binding
Cloth
Illustrator
Unknown
Item weight
0.5 kilograms
Dimensions
8.5" by 5.5"

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