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A Good copy of volume two of a three volume set from the "Country Life Library" Volume has no copyright date but Country Life began in 1897, Charles Scribner's Sons started in 1901 and the third volume was possibly published in 1908. From Title Page:"Edited By John Leyland; Illustrated From Photographs By Charles Latham; London Published At The Offices Of Country Life 20 Tavistock Street Covent Garden; George Newnes Limited 7 - 12 Southampton Street Strand; New York: Charles Scribner's Sons" Wear to khaki color boards with spotting. Wear to corners of boards. Slight musty smell to volume. Wear to both ends of spine with tearing and the illustrations have wear spots. Gilt page edgings are still crisp. Previous owner's bookplate remains inside front boards. Slight sunning to flyleaves and side page edgings. Previous owner's notes in pencil with an embossed seal and spotting on front flyleaf. Small piece of tissue paper is attached inside front boards. Smudging to front flyleaf. Wear to page edgings with smudging and dings. Lavishly illustrated. Notes in red ink to pages x & xi. Pages 27 through 30 are attached at both ends. Many pages are attached at the top corner. Spot along spine between pages 36 & 37. Deep crease to corner of page 91/92. Slight separation between pages 94 & 95 along spine and is noticeable along the side page edgings. Spine string shows through between pages 38 & 39 and 102 & 103. Includes an Introduction, an Index and Publisher's advertising for Volume 1 at the end. Gardens included:"Agecroft Hall, Manchester; Albury Park, Surrey; Aldenham House, Hertfordshire; Amesbury Abbey, Wiltshire; Balcarres, Fifeshire; Barncluith, Lanarkshire; Barrow Court, Somerset; Borde Hill, Sussex; Brokenhurst Park, Hampshire; Castle Ashby, Northants; Chastleton House, Oxfordshire; Chirk Castle, Denbighshire; Chiswick House, Middlesex; Compton Wynyates, Warwick; Cranborne Manor House, Dorset; Danby Hall, Yorkshire; Drakelowe Hall, Burton-on-Trent; Drumlanrig Castle, Dumfriesshire; Drummond Castle, Perthshire; Easton Hall, Grantham, Lincolnshire; Eaton Hall, Cheshire; Eydon Hall, Northamptonshire; Frogmore and Windsor; Fyfield Manor, Wiltshire; Grimston Park, Yorkshire; Groombridge Place, Kent; Gwydyr Castle, Denbighshire; Hackwood Park, Hampshire; Haddon Hall, Derbyshire; Hadsor, Worcester; Hampton Court, Leominster; Hampton Court, Middlesex; Harewood House, Yorkshire; Hartwell House, Aylesbury; Hewell Grange, Redditch; Highnam Court, Gloucestershire; Hoar Cross, Burton-on-Trent; Holland House; Inwood House, Somerset; Kedleston Hall, Derbyshire; Kentwell Hall, Suffolk; Leighton Hall, Welshpool; Linton Park, Kent; Littlecote Hall, Berkshire; Lochinch, Wigtownshire; Longleat, Warminster; Mapperton House, Beaminster; Margam Park, Glamorgan; Marks Hall, Essex; Melford Hall, Suffolk; Mere Hall, Droitwich; Moyns Park, Essex; Munstead Wood, Godalming; Newbattle Abbey, Midlothian; Okeover Hall, Derbyshire; Orchardleigh Park, Frome; Orchards, Surrey; Packwood House, Birmingham; Pain's Hill, Surrey; Parham Park, Sussex; Penshurst, Kent; Pitchford Hall, Shropshire; Powis Castle, Montgomery; St. Fagan's, Cardiff; Sedwich Park, Horsham; Shrublands Park, Ipswich; Smithills Hall, Lancaster; Stoke Edith Park, Hereford; Stoke Park, Slough; Stoke Rochford, Grantham; The Vyne, Hampshire; Westwood Park, Droitwich; Wickham Court, Kent; Wilton House, Wiltshire; Woodside, Hertfordshire" From the Introduction: "The gardens illustrated in the following pages are the types and exemplars of every class of English gardenage.""Description: xxiv, 284 pages : illustrations ; 38 cm." Due to weight of this volume, International postage will only be processed with additional charges for shipping from the buyer.
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