Some English Gardens

London: Longman's Green, 1904. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. navy cloth, spine and front cover lettered in gilt. Teg. Very good. 131 pages. 34 x 24 cm, fifty full-page colored plates. Scarce and very collectable work by the doyen of English landscape architecture. Gertrude Jekyll concentrated her design work on applying plants in a variety of settings, woodland gardens, water gardens and herbaceous borders always striving to achieve the most natural effect. Slight rubbing to backstrip extremities.