Eleanor Sinclair Rohde (14 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Red cloth, black lettering, nice shape. Gardening.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Limited Edition. Large 8vo. xii, 144 pp, illus. Limited Edition, 1972. 1/500 Copies. 16 Plates, 8 Plans. Bibliography, index. Not Price Clipped. Pristine, no wear. No markings, binding tight, clean, white and bright. 6.5" x 9.75". Brown cloth with gilt imprint on front board, gilt lettering to spine, and brown top text block. Illustrated dj in acetate protector. Size: Large Octavo. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Photos available upon request! Book has a slight cock to spine, light bummping to edges of spine, light rubbing to edges of cover, light toning and scuffing to textblock, a tiny stain to front cover, and a slight storage smell to pages; dust jacket has tiny tears to edges of cover and spine, a mild tear to top corner of spine, ligjht foxing to front cover, modest toning to spine, light toning to edges of ocver, and mild smudging to cover. otherwise book itself is in very good condition with a bright cover, clean pages, and a solid binding; dust jacket is in good condition ann now protected in an archival cover.

4to. Publishers' cloth; title gilt on spine; with dustwrapper. Very fine copy.243 pp; 18 plates in B&W.No.395 of a LIMITED EDITION of 500. The standard work on the subject to the year 1678.

hardcover. Condition: Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Brown buckram gilt, DW, 8vo., xii, 144 pages, illustrated with 16 plates and 8 plans. A facsimile of the 1924 edition, surveying gardening books from 1503 to 1706. Of 500 numbered copies, this copy is out-of-series. Printed by W & J Mackay, and from the collection of Anthony Mackay Miller, without attribution. Faint spotting to the covers, else a very good copy in a slightly edgeworn DW, in archival mylar.

8vo [22 x 15 cm]; xii, 326 pp, 30 plates including colored frontis and other plates in color, other illus, 2 plans, bibliog, index. original cloth, spine title lettering dull but visible, bookplate on endpaper, minor foxing on few leaves, very good copy, clean. Covers ancient garden lore, medieval gardens, Tudor, Stuart and Georgian gardens, French and Dutch influences, landscape school, Victorian gardens, American gardens, appendices. The author was a respected and popular garden writer. A picture of this book is available on request.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Brown Cloth, Gilt Title, Xi + 236 Pages, Illustrated, 5 Colour Plates. A Soundly Bound Book, Previous Owner's Dedication (Dater 1943). Some Cover-Wear (Especially Top Spine-End) But Overall "Good". Not Ex Library.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Calligraphy by Margaret Shipton (illustrator). Two volumes. The First Book Contayninge a very lively and true Description of the Flowers of Springe (and) The Second Book.Flowers of the Summer, Autumn and Winter. Quarter green leather gilt with marbled paper-covered boards, DWs, landscape 4to., illustrated with reproductions of seventeenth century copper engravings. Each volume is one of 550 numbered copies printed on Pannekoek mould-made paper. Errata slip tipped into volume 1 and tissue guards present. Foot of spines and board tips mildly worn, still nice very good copies in minimally worn and dusty DWs, in archival mylar.

First edition in good condition in cloth covers without dust wrapper.

First edition. Small octavo. 331 pages. A collection of gardening prose and verse. Pictorial endpapers. Pages unopened. Covers decorated in blind and gilt.Tail of spine slightly bumped, otherwise fine in dustwrapper slightly creased at the bottom edge and very slightly faded at the spine. A brilliant copy.

8vo [24 x 16 cm]; xii, 144 pp, illus, 16 plates, 8 plans, title page vignette, index. original cloth-backed boards, original paper labels, fine, clean and unmarked in the scarce dust jacket (short tear, slight wear but quite good), with an extra loose title label. An important and detailed contribution with plates and bibliography mainly 16th and 17th century. With a chapter on William Lawson, Gervase Markham, John Parkinson. A picture of this book is available on request.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Various (illustrator). First edition. A smart seven-volume collection of scarce domestic science and cookery books charting the shift from Victorian thrift to interwar modernity, with three first editions. In the publisher's original cloth bindings.This is a smart seven-volume collection of British domestic cookery and home management, from 1898 to 1938, charting the shift from Victorian thrift to interwar modernity, consisting of: Up-to-date and Economical Cookery [1898]. This volume is the second edition. This copy is undated. Dated here using Jisc from copies held at The British Library and National Library of Scotland. Publisher"s advertisements to rear. This volume offers Victorian, budget-minded recipes and household economy. Cookery by Mary Duke Gordon and Eleanor Sinclair Rohde (1922). This volume is a first edition. This is a comprehensive interwar guide to everyday and entertaining cookery. Food Wisdom: A Book for the Housewife and Everyone Responsible for the Care and Preparation of Food by D. D. Cottington Taylor assisted by P. L. Garbutt (1926). This volume is a first edition. A concise manual on nutrition, planning, safe storage, and thrifty cooking. The Green Label Cookery Book (1930). This volume is the first edition, first printing of this work, with numerous practical recipes and menus for modern kitchens. Practical Home Making by D. D. Cottington Taylor [1930]. This volume is undated. Dated here, using Jisc, from a copy held at the University of Cambridge Libraires. This is an interwar domestic handbook on cookery, cleaning, budgeting, and efficiency. Meatless Dishes for Hay Dieters by Mabel Osborne with a foreword by Doris M. L. Grant (1937). This edition is a reprint of this compact vegetarian cookbook. Good Food from Sweden: Selections from Swedish Dishes Suited to an English Table compiled by Inga Norberg (1938). This is the third impression of this work. This copy has 7 pages for additional recipes to the rear. In the publisher's original cloth bindings. Externally, generally very smart. Slight rubbing and bumping to extremities. Previous seller"s small sticker to rear paste down of "Food Wisdom". Bookplates from "martin & Pamela Finch: Exlibris Gastronomique" to front free endpapers. Previous owner"s written recipes to front and rear paste downs and rear free endpapers of "Meatless Dishes". Previous owner"s pencil recipe inscriptions to two rear blank "additional recipes" pages of "Food from Sweden". Blind stamp to front free endpaper of "Cookery" from "Hampton Park, Hereford", with previous owner"s inscriptions to front endpapers. Tide marks and heavier offsetting to endpapers of "Cookery". Internally, generally firmly bound. Pages generally bright and clean with the odd spot and slight age toning heavier to older copies. Very Good. book.

First edition. Royal octavo. 308 pages. 32 plates from photographs.Fore-edge slightly spotted. Head and tail of spine slightly pushed. Near fine in near-fine dustwrapper slightly creased at the edges and slightly faded at the spine. Scarce in this condition.