English Garden Flowers

Book Description

London: Duckworth, 1948. First Edition. Hardcover. Very light shelf/edge wear (focused at lower corners), else tight, bright and unmarred. DJ shows several small, closed tears along top edge, small chip at head of spine, else clean and bright. Quarter-bound, cream cloth at spine, red paper front board, cream rear board, white ink lettering and decorative elements (matching the DJ). 4to. 31pp. Illus. (color plates). John Nash depicts his chosen flowers with an artist's genius, and writes of them with a gardeners love; his coloured lithographs have a life and sparkle of their own, as well as all the accuracy the most pedantic botonist could expect. This is well-varied collection is offered both for the study and the continuing delight of all who love gardens." 12 wonderful lithographs. A very handsome copy of an increasingly scarce volume.

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