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JEKYLL, Gertrude.

Flower Decoration in the House.

Flower Decoration in the House.

Stock Code 116549

London, Country Life, 1907

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The first edition of Gertrude Jekyll's illustrated work which greatly influenced the development of 20th-century floral decoration as an art. The book provides month-by-month advice on the best use of flowers in the house, including advice on vases and holders accompanied by drawings and 57 photographic plates showing various arrangements.

First edition; 8vo (23 x 15 cm); photographic frontispeice and 57 plates, further in-text illustrations, 10pp ads to rear, ownership inscription in pen to front free endpaper recto, spotting throughout; publisher's blue cloth, upper cover and spine lettered in gilt, spine darkened, extremities slightly rubbed; xi, [1], 98, [12]pp.

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