Eleanor Sinclair Rohde (14 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Red cloth, black lettering, nice shape. Gardening.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Photos available upon request! Book has a slight cock to spine, light bummping to edges of spine, light rubbing to edges of cover, light toning and scuffing to textblock, a tiny stain to front cover, and a slight storage smell to pages; dust jacket has tiny tears to edges of cover and spine, a mild tear to top corner of spine, ligjht foxing to front cover, modest toning to spine, light toning to edges of ocver, and mild smudging to cover. otherwise book itself is in very good condition with a bright cover, clean pages, and a solid binding; dust jacket is in good condition ann now protected in an archival cover. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. 1924 first edition hardback in very good condition. Light foxing to end papers. No other marks, clean and bright, tight binding. Bound in quarter beige cloth with blue linen boards with light wear. In its original, unclipped dust jacket with various tears, now in a protective sleeve. Items are dispatched the same or the following working day.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Brown buckram gilt, DW, 8vo., xii, 144 pages, illustrated with 16 plates and 8 plans. A facsimile of the 1924 edition, surveying gardening books from 1503 to 1706. Of 500 numbered copies, this copy is out-of-series. Printed by W & J Mackay, and from the collection of Anthony Mackay Miller, without attribution. Faint spotting to the covers, else a very good copy in a slightly edgeworn DW, in archival mylar.…

8vo [22 x 15 cm]; xii, 326 pp, 30 plates including colored frontis and other plates in color, other illus, 2 plans, bibliog, index. original cloth, spine title lettering dull but visible, bookplate on endpaper, minor foxing on few leaves, very good copy, clean. Covers ancient garden lore, medieval gardens, Tudor, Stuart and Georgian gardens, French and Dutch influences, landscape school, Victorian gardens, American gardens, appendices. The author was a respected and popular garden writer. A picture of this book is available on request.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Brown Cloth, Gilt Title, Xi + 236 Pages, Illustrated, 5 Colour Plates. A Soundly Bound Book, Previous Owner's Dedication (Dater 1943). Some Cover-Wear (Especially Top Spine-End) But Overall "Good". Not Ex Library.

Hardcover/Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Author: Rohde, Eleanor Sinclair and Eric parker. | Release Date: 01-12-1944 | Languages: english | Binding: hardcover | Item Note: The Gardener's Weekend Book. Hardback with adhesive-tape repairs to dust jacket; overall a VG copy. | Item Condition: UsedVeryGood. …

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. The popular edition of a charming work that helped established the modern English herb garden as we see it today, outlining its multiple purposes. The popular edition of A Garden of Herbs: Being a Practical Handbook to the Making of an Old English Herb Garden: Together with Numerous Receipts from Contemporary Authorities, written by Horticultural writer and gardening expert Eleanor Sinclair Rohde Published in 1922, first published in 1920. In the publisher's original blue cloth, with in-text garden knot designs between leaves pp.21-28. A charming work that went through numerous subsequent editions, Rohde popularised the modern English herb garden as we see it today. She stresses the multiple purposes that a herb garden can provide other than aesthetic beauty, such as for medicinal, food, and drink purposes. In the publisher's original blue cloth. Externally, mostly smart, with a mark to the rear board, and a couple of faint marks to extremities. Slight rubbing to joints and edges. Bumping to the head and tail of the spine, and to the extremities. Faint offsetting to free end papers. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Very Good. Unknown (illustrator). book.…

First edition in good condition in cloth covers without dust wrapper.

First edition. Small octavo. 331 pages. A collection of gardening prose and verse. Pictorial endpapers. Pages unopened. Covers decorated in blind and gilt.Tail of spine slightly bumped, otherwise fine in dustwrapper slightly creased at the bottom edge and very slightly faded at the spine. A brilliant copy.…

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. First Reprint of First (1939) Edition. Guidance (with recipes) for constructing, and cooking with, a haybox. First Reprint of First (1939) Edn., 1943; full tan cloth; titling/plain borders blocked in green to front board; 80pp. Spine very lightly crushed at top/tail, but robust/intact and very clean/bright; boards clean and very crisp/bright; top edge slightly tanned/moderately foxed; light foxing to faintly tanned fore-edge, but text very fresh, pages clean and very crisp/bright; lightly soiled dj chipped/torn at top/bottom edges and on spine, with loss (approx. 10mm x 90mm) to rear at top edge, but substantially complete and quite bright. No inscriptions. VG in Poor dj. PRICE INCLUDES UK POSTAGE & PACKING. Hardback.…

8vo [24 x 16 cm]; xii, 144 pp, illus, 16 plates, 8 plans, title page vignette, index. original cloth-backed boards, original paper labels, fine, clean and unmarked in the scarce dust jacket (short tear, slight wear but quite good), with an extra loose title label. An important and detailed contribution with plates and bibliography mainly 16th and 17th century. With a chapter on William Lawson, Gervase Markham, John Parkinson. A picture of this book is available on request.…

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. First edition. A smart seven-volume collection of scarce domestic science and cookery books charting the shift from Victorian thrift to interwar modernity, with three first editions. In the publisher's original cloth bindings.This is a smart seven-volume collection of British domestic cookery and home management, from 1898 to 1938, charting the shift from Victorian thrift to interwar modernity, consisting of: Up-to-date and Economical Cookery [1898]. This volume is the second edition. This copy is undated. Dated here using Jisc from copies held at The British Library and National Library of Scotland. Publisher"s advertisements to rear. This volume offers Victorian, budget-minded recipes and household economy. Cookery by Mary Duke Gordon and Eleanor Sinclair Rohde (1922). This volume is a first edition. This is a comprehensive interwar guide to everyday and entertaining cookery. Food Wisdom: A Book for the Housewife and Everyone Responsible for the Care and Preparation of Food by D. D. Cottington Taylor assisted by P. L. Garbutt (1926). This volume is a first edition. A concise manual on nutrition, planning, safe storage, and thrifty cooking. The Green Label Cookery Book (1930). This volume is the first edition, first printing of this work, with numerous practical recipes and menus for modern kitchens. Practical Home Making by D. D. Cottington Taylor [1930]. This volume is undated. Dated here, using Jisc, from a copy held at the University of Cambridge Libraires. This is an interwar domestic handbook on cookery, cleaning, budgeting, and efficiency. Meatless Dishes for Hay Dieters by Mabel Osborne with a foreword by Doris M. L. Grant (1937). This edition is a reprint of this compact vegetarian cookbook. Good Food from Sweden: Selections from Swedish Dishes Suited to an English Table compiled by Inga Norberg (1938). This is the third impression of this work. This copy has 7 pages for additional recipes to the rear. In the publisher's original cloth bindings. Externally, generally very smart. Slight rubbing and bumping to extremities. Previous seller"s small sticker to rear paste down of "Food Wisdom". Bookplates from "martin & Pamela Finch: Exlibris Gastronomique" to front free endpapers. Previous owner"s written recipes to front and rear paste downs and rear free endpapers of "Meatless Dishes". Previous owner"s pencil recipe inscriptions to two rear blank "additional recipes" pages of "Food from Sweden". Blind stamp to front free endpaper of "Cookery" from "Hampton Park, Hereford", with previous owner"s inscriptions to front endpapers. Tide marks and heavier offsetting to endpapers of "Cookery". Internally, generally firmly bound. Pages generally bright and clean with the odd spot and slight age toning heavier to older copies. Very Good. Various (illustrator). book.…

First edition. Royal octavo. 308 pages. 32 plates from photographs.Fore-edge slightly spotted. Head and tail of spine slightly pushed. Near fine in near-fine dustwrapper slightly creased at the edges and slightly faded at the spine. Scarce in this condition.