Northend Mary 1850 1926 (1 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. This is a lovely issue of the The Mentor monographic series, June 15, 1916 Volume 4, Number 9 - Serial No. 109 : Historic Gardens of New England by Mary Harrod Northend. The Issue created by the Mentor Department of Natural History and published by The Mentor Association. *************************************** The Mentor was a periodical full of interesting and informative articles and packed with lovely soft sepia and monochrome reproductions of photographs and art. Part of the Mentor system was the issuance of serial monographs, such as the one issued here, which issues were devoted to a single subject. The text in these issues, while factual, were written on a popular level and did not make pretense towards scholarship and thus were livelier than similar information one might find in academic publications. From month to month one never know what sort of subject matter might be covered. *************************************** This issue features a delightful discourse on Historic Gardens of New England by Mary H. Northend. Accompanying the text are many photographs and six separate portfolio plates with halftone sepia photographs of famous gardens. Many gardens are mentioned, but the following are given special attention and have accompanying portfolio sepia gravure plates. Each sepia plate has a legend printed on the verso telling about the garden : - Longfellow's Garden / The Hoffman Garden / The Peabody Garden / The Moulton Garden / The Derby Garden / The Wendell Garden **************************************** SERIES : Mentor Monographic Serials ( NO. 109) / AEGIS : Mentor Department of Natural History / ISSUE : Volume 4, Number 9 / TITLE : Historic Gardens of New England / AUTHOR : Mary H. Northend (Mary Harrod Northend, 1850 - 1926) / IMPRINT : Mentor Association / PLACE : 52, East Nineteenth St., New York / DATE : June 15, 1916 / STATUS : OP / PHYSICAL DETAILS : Serial Monograph; contains 6 loose halftone gravure plates in sepia; numerous halftone photo-illustrations through the text; 12 pages; approx. 7 1/8 x 10 , decorated stiff wraps, printed in black and light blue against gray, stapled (2 staples)- no advertising. ************************************* CONDITION - GOOD PLUS - This is a previously owned book, which remains clean and attractive, with the following imperfections and particulars noted : EXTERIOR : The most obvious imperfection is the small loss to the bottom fore-edge corner tip on the rear cover; the spine fold displays moderate abrasion, and there is some mild weathering along its length; there are various minute dents and nicks along the cover edges; soft bumps to corner tips; cover details are bright, and the whole displays nicely. / BINDING : There is evidence that some mending was neatly effected to the cover attachment, else the whole seems solid and tight , with no detached or loose leaves. / INTERIOR : Clean and unmarked throughout. No writing or signatures. The six sepia plates have softly bumped corner tips, else are clean and attractive. This is the original publication, not a modern reproduction.