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1 JEKYLL.GERTRUDE.; HUSSEY.CHRISTOPHER. GARDEN ORNAMENT. Country Life.London.,1927  Second edition,revised.The best edition.Folio.Fully illustarted throughout with hundreds of beautiful photographs.A very good+ copy in original green cloth boards with different shade of green cloth spine,lettered in gilt.Previous owners bookplate otherwise a very good,clean,bright copy.Uncommon in this condition.This second edition describes itself as "to all intents a new book.The sectional prefaces have been entirley rewrtiien,fresh sections have been inserted,such as that on overgrowth,and the old ones have been pruned and supplemented.About fifty per cent.of the illustrations are fresh."A lovely copy of one of the most beautiful garden books of the twentieth century.:  Price: 600.00 GBP Add to Shopping Cart