Stebbing Evelyn (7 results)

Condition: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

First Edition. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked, paper-labeled cloth. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description : xii, 259 pages frontispiece, illustrations, plates 21 cm. Notes : Author married to Edward Percy Stebbing. Subjects ; Floriculture.Gardening England. Gardening Scotland. Gardening.Spring gardening. Summer gardening. 1 Kg. …

First Edition. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked, paper-labeled cloth. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description : xii, 259 pages frontispiece, illustrations, plates 21 cm. Notes : Author married to Edward Percy Stebbing. Subjects ; Floriculture.Gardening England. Gardening Scotland. Gardening.Spring gardening. Summer gardening. 1 Kg. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition, 1910. Wonderfully illustrated by the author and his wife. Very slight foxing to page edges otherwise in near fine condition with no marks or inscriptions. From 1900 to 1910, Edward Percy Stebbing worked as Forest Entomologist and Zoologist for the Indian Forest Service. In 1910, he returned to University of Edinburgh as Professor of Forestry. E. P. Stebbing, Maude Evelyn Stebbing (illustrator).…

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. circa 1928. Almost very good condition with no wrapper. Cloth spine, pictorial front cover shows two children on fairground ride. Colour and b/w illustrations. Stories and rhymes. Bumping and wear to spine and corners. Covers a bit grubby and marked, pen sum written to front cover. Ink inscription to front pastedown. Some light foxing and a couple of grubby fingermarks to contents. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched. Adams, Frank & Bernard, C.E.B. & Aris, Ernest A. & Kidman, Leigh & Woolley, Harry & et al., (illustrator).…

Gr. 8°, Hardcover. Condition: Gut. first Edition. 52 S. lot of pictures some full-page and color, some sign of use, apart from that a good condition Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 1100.

First edition, first printing. Constance Spry's copy. Original beige linen boards with titles, decorations and ruled borders printed in black and green on the spine and upper board. Illustrated throughout with botanical colour plates by Millie Walters Anson. A very good copy, the binding square and firm, the cloth toned and marked, the corners bumped, the cloth with some splitting at the spine. With Constance Spry's ownership inscription to the front free endpaper, a small bookseller's label to the rear pastedown, a tiny numerical stamp to the foot of the rear free endpaper and some spotting early and late, the contents are otherwise clean throughout. A fantastic association copy. Constance Spry's copy, with her large, flamboyant signature in thick pencil on the front free endpaper. The gardener Maud Evelyn Stebbing's fourth book, a guide to the use of colour in garden design that, unusually, groups plants and flowers by colour rather than species or position. Constance Spry was a florist, teacher and cookery writer who revolutionised the art of floristry in the early 20th century with innovative, cascading shapes and the use of unconventional, 'common' plants such as bindweed and, most famously, chard leaves. The Duchess of Kent once reportedly asked Spry to leave her signature chard leaves out of an arrangement because her mother, the Grand Duchess Elena Vladimirovna, was visiting and "might not understand". Spry and Stebbing were active in the same period, with Spry's first book, 'Flower Decoration', being published in the same year as 'Colour in the Garden'. It is easy to see how Stebbing's emphasis on colour and visual harmony would have been a useful resource for Spry's creative approach to floristry. Spry's designs became highly fashionable in upper-class British society, and she provided the floral arrangements for four royal weddings, including that of Queen Elizabeth II, as well as the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II. In the 1930s Spry was in a relationship with the painter Gluck, who frequently painted Spry's experimental arrangements. In 1946 Spry founded a cookery school in London with her friend Rosemary Hume. Spry, Hume and their students were tasked with catering the banquet for the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in 1953, and created the now famous dish coronation chicken for the event. Spry continued to write about and practice floristry while also devoting time to cookery writing and teaching until her death in 1960. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. All items are catalogued by humans. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.…