Home and Garden
1900, first edition, Gertrude Jekyll's account of designing and building Munstead Wood
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Printing Details
First edition. Hardback, bound in the original buckram with gilt titling and decoration to spine and upper board. 23 × 14.5cm, 301pp.
Illustrated with Gertrude Jekyll's own photographs, this book describes the building of her own home (Munstead Wood) to her own design with the help of Sir Edwin Lutyens and the garden she created around it. Her eye for detail, both in the home and outside it, is one of her greatest strengths and it is often the commonplace we all see but fail to examine that she observes so acutely and draws to our attention. Moreover, she talks to the reader as someone with the same interests and problems so that although some of the experiences she describes may now seem dated, the common sense remains.
Condition
A good reading or reference copy. There is fraying to the cloth at the spine ends and fraying starting at the joints. The inner binding is a little weak but no pages are loose. It remains in good readable condition but is starting to show its age. A rather charming previous owner's inscription to the half title reads "Our dear Edith, March 27, 1900, and with many thoughts of, someday, a HOME AND GARDEN. A & M S S C."
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Price
£40.00
