Search Results: the praise of gardens an epitome by sieveking albert forbes

J. M. Dent, 1899. Hardcover. Good. 1899. No edition remarks. 423 pages. No dust jacket. Pictorial cloth covered boards. Black and white illustration plates with tissue guards. Rough cut edges to textblock. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding slightly loose. Minor pencil inscriptions to front free endpaper. Boards have heavy shelf wear with bumping and fraying to corners and crushing and fraying to spine ends. All surfaces tanned and sunned, particularly spine. Gilt lettering to spine is dulled but remains brighter on front.

Cornell University Library, 2009-08-10. Paperback. Good.

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1899. Good. SIEVEKING, ALBERT FORBES. The Praise of Gardens: An Epitome of the Literature of The Garden Art. With An Historical Epilogue. London: J. M. Dent & Co., 1899. 8vo, pp.xvi, 423, illus. w. halftone plates from old garden books. Index. Gilt dec. cloth, t.e.g. Water stain on top corner of front cover and on a few of the plates. [Anthology of important writings on gardens.]