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In Praise of Gardens Fore-Edge Painting

In Praise of Gardens Fore-Edge Painting

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In Praise of Gardens. Compiled by Sidney J. Shaylor. With Ten Illustrations. London: Truslove & Hanson Limited. Circa 1911.

 

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With a beautiful fore-edge painting depicting an eloquent rural scene, the work housed in a lovely fine binding by Bumpus, Oxford.

 

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Size: 122 x 178 mm (approx.)



Condition: 

[(2), half title, frontis, t.p., 2ff., 152pp., (2)]


Full green calf binding with gilt tooled title in a compartment to the spine between raised bands, other compartments with simple decorative tooled designs. Binding lightly scuffed with some sunning to edges of boards. Both boards securely attached with joints and front hinge starting. Shelf and edge wear. Fore-edge painting under gilt; all edges gilt. Edge toning to endpapers as commensurate with the full calf bindings. Text block extremely clean with occasional foxing. 


[OCLC 746004623].

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