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Publication Date: 2023
Seller: True World of Books, Delhi, India
Book Print on Demand
LeatherBound. Condition: New. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1914 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 524 Volume 2:p17-25 (1914) Language: English.
Publication Date: 2023
Seller: True World of Books, Delhi, India
Book Print on Demand
LeatherBound. Condition: New. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1914 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 773 Volume 1:p1-16 (1914) Language: English.
Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Hardback. Folio, frontis of Warley Place. 40 tissue guarded photgravure plates as called for, original quarter green cloth lettered gilt on spine and dark green on cover. bookplate to front pastedown of George Cresswell Turner (1858-1940), Managing Director of his prosperous family boot & shoe business, W and E Turner Ltd, Fellow of the Linnean Society and Chairman of the Flora Committee, Botanical Section of the Leicester Lit and Phil Society. Sound with good clean plates, covers have a little general wear, slight mottling and some rubbing at edges. Near vg. Almost no text apart from the list of plates.
Published by 1st. Ed. Pub. Bernard Quaritch. 1909, 1909
Seller: C. Arden (Bookseller) ABA, Hay-on-Wye, United Kingdom
pp.[viii] with 40 fine, tissue guarded, photographic plates. Folio. Contents nr. fine. Original green cloth backed binding in vg. plus condition. A wonderful work illustrating Ellen Willmott s (1858-1934) gardens at Warley Place. The detail within the photographs is quite superb.
Published by London : Bernard Quaritch 11 Grafton Street New Bond Street MCMIX, 1909
First Edition
First edition. Folio. 16.0" x 12.5" x 1.0". pp.8 + 40 plates . Original light green papered boards, lightly soiled and bumped corners. Dark green cloth spine with gilt title: "Warley Gardens. Willmott." Inscription to verso fthe front board: "C. B. Myers Dunningwell, Millom, Cumberland. From C. J. M. Jan. 1st 1910." Clean text and sepia plates, throughout. *Charles John Myers Born in Flintham, Notts on 16 Oct. 1843 to Charles John Myers and Mary Caroline Ward. Charles John Myers married Clara London : Bernard Quaritch MCMIX [1909]Belasyse Manson. He passed away on 4 Sep. 1910 in Thwaites. *** Clara Belasyse Manson born on January 1, 1855, in New Spynie, Moray, Scotland. She married Charles John Myers on September 9, 1875, in Millom, Cumberland, England. She died on April 13, 1944, at the age of 89.
Published by Bernard Quaritch, London, 1909
Seller: Temple Bar Bookshop, Dublin, DUB, Ireland
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition, a very good copy in cloth backed boards, No markings or inscriptions, the covers are a bit dulled and end papers toned, but the contents of 40 large plates sound.
Seller: Trillium Antiquarian Books, Peterborough, ON, Canada
Association Member: IOBA
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. London: Wheldon & Wesley, 1924. Second edition (unpaginated). Folio (38 cm) in tan cloth over complimentary paper, title to front cover label in black. A portfolio of forty photo reproductions depicting Willmott s gardens (Nutwalk in Daffodil Time, Orchard Garden in June, A Marshy Dell, Roses and Iris, etc.) with leafy Warley Place as frontispiece. Ellen Willmott (1858- 1934) was one of the first women to be elected a fellow of the Linnean Society (1905). The Société d'acclimatation de France awarded her the grande médaille Geoffroi St Hilaire in 1912, while in 1924 she received the Dean Hole medal from the National Rose Society. She sometimes advised on garden design and planting, notably on Anne Hathaway's cottage garden at Stratford upon Avon in the early 1920s. Her other interests included. photography, where her work was of professional standard and to which the garden images here testify (ODNB). A few spots and minor wear to covers; plates are fine.
Published by John Murray 1910-1914, London, 1910
Seller: Charles Agvent, est. 1987, ABAA, ILAB, Fleetwood, PA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Softcover. Alfred Parsons (illustrator). First Edition. Folio (11" x 15") in printed wrappers housed in two green morocco-backed slipcases with chemises. The complete set of 25 individual parts of the most important work on roses in the twentieth century, illustrated with 132 chromolithograph plates after watercolours by Alfred Parsons, 87 black and white plates, and numerous illustrations in the text. RIX, THE ART OF THE BOTANIST, 1981: "The first great colour-printed book of the twentieth century it still stands unrivalled, both as an account of the species and as a source of illustrations of wild roses." Ellen Willmott (1858 - 1934) was a celebrated English horticulturist, prominent member of the Royal Horticultural Society, one of the first two women to be admitted into the Linnaean Society, and one of the first recipients of the Victoria Medal of Honour in 1897. At the front of the chemise for the first volume is pasted an original and beautiful manuscript presentation dated September 1929 to William Adams Delano for work on the exhibitions for the International Flower Show. Delano was an American architect and a partner with Chester Holmes Aldrich in the firm of Delano & Aldrich. He designed many of the buildings at Yale University as well as the second-largest residence in the United States, Oheka, overlooking Cold Spring Harbor on Long Island for financier Otto Kahn. He was also the architect for the 1927 renovation to the White House, which later led to structural problems and rebuilding during the Truman Administration. There are many small drawings and tracings throughout this set on loose pieces of paper, possibly by Delano. Plates strong and fresh; occasional paperclip impression at very top margin of some pages including plates; some pages loose or detached; light wear to wrappers, somewhat heavier wear to slipcases. Near Fine and quite scarce in original wrappers.
One Quarter Leather Spine. Drawings by Alfred Parsons added in the proper places and the covers bound in the back 1910-1911 (illustrator). First Edition, 1914 - Rare. The color illustrations are chromolithographs. Very good - a few small scrapes to the spine.