Essay on Modern Gardening, with a Faithful translation into French by The Duke of Nivernois, a reprint in Type Facsimile of the Edition Printed by Mr. Walpole at Strawberry Hill, MDCCLXXXV, to which is added an Introductory Note by Alice Morse Earle

WALPOLE, Horace with Alice Morse Earle (introd)

Published by Lewis Buddy, The Kirgate Press,, 1904

About this Item

Hbk 4to, edition limited to 300 copies ('type distributed'), text in French and English en face with a section of manuscript-hand facsimile pages, facsimile reprint of the 1771 edition (originally published as 'The Modern Taste in Gardening,' in an edition of 400 copies and the fourth volume of Walpole's 'Anecdotes of Painting in England'), no dj as issued, brown paper-covered boards with embossed bright gilt titles and ornament front (dulled at the spine), boards lightly spotted and rubbed at extremities, spine-strip worn, now in custom acetate jacket, hinges just barely starting, prev owner's rather elegant bookplate on front pastedown, engraved colophon of gardening tools on title page and other similar at the foot of the last (2) pages, deckled edges, internally a fine clean tight, unfoxed and unmarked text, a fine example this classic text in gardening and of the printerÕs art, becoming exceptionally hard to find. Seller Inventory # Gar199

Bibliographic Details

Title: Essay on Modern Gardening, with a Faithful ...

Publisher: Lewis Buddy, The Kirgate Press,, 1904

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good