Indoor Plants and Gardens

London: The Architectural Press, 1952. Octavo (22 x 14.5 cm.), 154 pages. Illustrated. Bibliography. FIRST EDITION. A handsomely designed and illustrated guide to indoor plants, with instructions for planting and care. The core of the book is a botanical listing of indoor plants, from Aechmae and Aloe to Zebrina and Tradescantia. The final, photographically illustrated, section suggests design ideas for integrating the plants into a modern space. Edited by Patience Gray and Primrose Boyd, the team that would five years later offer the bestselling cookbook, Plats du Jour (1957). Decades later, Gray would give us her masterpiece, Honey from a Weed. Internally clean and sound; publisher's yellow cloth, titled in green at the spine. Some faint darkening to top edge, otherwise fine. In an unclipped dust jacket, worn at the top edge, chipped near the top of the spine, and with some darkening to the spine; otherwise very good. Very scarce, especially in the first printing.