Beschreibung:

Eight Large Illustrated Books on Flowers and Gardens including: Ellen Willmott and Alfred Parsons, Genus Rosa (London: John Murray 1910-1914), two volumes, color chromolithograph plates, in black quarter leather on green cloth, the spine with gilt lettering and frame, ex libris markings, 15-3/8" x 11-3/4". [Stafleu-Cowan TL2 17.875; Nissen BBI 2166] H. Inigo Triggs Formal Gardens in England and Scotland (London: Batsford, 1902), first (subscriber's) edition, collotype plates, in brown half morocco on green buckram with gilt fillet, the spine with raised bands and gilt lettering and frames, 17-1/2" x 13-1/2". George S. Elgood & Gertrude Jekyll Some English Gardens (London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1920), "New" edition, color photo-offset plates, in green cloth with gilt lettering and fillet, 12-5/8" x 10-1/4". U. P. Hedrick, Plums of New York (Albany: J. B. Lyon, 1911), color photo-offset plates, in green buckram with gilt lettering and frame, 12-1/2" x 9-3/4". Jessie Macgregor Gardens of Celebrities and Celebrated Gardens (London: Hutchinson & Co., 1918), color photo-offset plates, in green cloth with gilt lettering and decoration, 9-7/8" x 7-3/4". National Geographic Society, Book of Wildflowers (Washington, DC: National Geographic, 1924), numerous color photo-offset plates, in embossed brown cloth with gilt lettering, 10-1/8" x 7-1/8". Osvald Siren, Gardens of China (New York: Ronald Press, 1949), color and monochrome photo-offset plates, in green buckram with gilt lettering, 12-1/4" x 9-3/4", in a green papered pasteboard slipcase.