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JEKYLL (GERTRUDE) Home and Garden, 1900; Lilies for English Gardens, 1901; Wall and Water Gardens, [1901]; Roses for English Gardens, 1902, FIRST EDITIONS, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPIES (4)
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JEKYLL (GERTRUDE)
Home and Garden, 1900; Lilies for English Gardens, 1901; Wall and Water Gardens, [1901]; Roses for English Gardens, 1902, FIRST EDITIONS, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPIES, EACH INSCRIBED TO DR. REGINALD THOMPSON, 3 signed on the half-title, one on the front free endpaper, all in the year of publication, photographic plates, illustrations, publisher's cloth gilt, rubbed (spine of first mentioned worn at joints and spine ends), 8vo, Longmans, or Country Life (4)
Footnotes
A series of books warmly inscribed by Gertrude Jekyll (1843–1932), "the greatest artist in horticulture and garden planting" (Hussey, The Life of Sir Edwin Lutyens, 1950), whose influential works on all aspects of gardening bore "witness to her desire to communicate ideas and information based on observation and practice to a large and interested public" (ODNB).
Provenance: Presentation inscription, in each volume, to Dr Reginald Thompson (1834-1912), a distinguished consultant at the Brompton Hospital and medical author.