Graham Stuart Thomas Intro (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Near Fine. Revised Edition. Light brown cloth-effect boards, lettered in gold foil. Slightly rubbed corners and spine extremities, otherwise about as issued. Color illus. dust jacket Near Fine with mild surface rubbing, now in mylar. 1st ptg. thus (revised edition). 200 pp., illus. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: fine. First edition thus. First printing of this edition, with introduction and revised by Graham Stuart Thomas. Fine in fine dust jacket. Hardcover. xxv with glossary+ 177 pp. with index. Profusely illustrated with black and white photos and with 12 color plates. Originally published in London in 1901, Jekyll's "Wall and Water Gardens" is a guide to using mountain, marsh, and eater plants in home gardening. In the first part, she explains how to build walls with ot without mortar, how to terrace, and how to use sun and shade to best advantage. The second part explains techniques for planting in water, at the water's edge, and in marshland.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: fine. First edition thus. First printing of this edition, introduced and revised by Graham Stuart Thomas. Hardcover. xxx with glossary + 159 pp. with index. Profusely illustrated with black and white photos and with diagrams as well as 13 color plates. Originally published in London in 1908, this is Jekyll's definitive statement on how a garden can look its best, using the principles of color for year round pleasure. It was Jekyll's aim to approach the garden as a canvas and to plant flowers in combinations that form a painting---a work of art. her "drifts of color" were compared to Monet's garden paintings with this difference: Monet planted his gardens to paint them while Jekyll's gardens WERE her paintings.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: fine. First edition thus. First edition thus with introduction and revised by Graham Stuart Thomas. Fine in fine dust jacket. Hardcover. xxvi+ 166 pp. Profusely illustrated with black and white and with 14 additional color photographs. First published in London in 1902 under title " Roses For The English Garden" Gertrude Jekyll brings her garden sense to the best loved flower of all. In collaboration with practical rose gardener Edward Mawley, she shows the nearly limitless possibilities for planting between walls, on pergolas, along wood posts, on verandas, and on trees, never instructing as much as inspiring.…

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. US bin 21-4. This beautiful very large large format book is #134 pf the limited edition. New in new dj, Soft pink spine w rambling rose bush vine.