Gardens old and new : the country house & its garden environment

RA Collection: Book

Record number

22/744

Imprint

London: The Offices of "Country Life Illustrated", 20, Tavistock St. Covent Garden; George Newnes, Limited 7-12, Southampton St. Strand, [1900-1908?]

Physical Description

3 volumes : black & white illustrations ; 37 cm.

Series Title

Country Life Library

General Note

Printer's name from verso of preliminary leaf facing the half-title, in each volume; statement in v.3 omits the address.
V.1: xxiv, 294, [2] ; v.2: xli, [1], 284 ; v.3: xl, 346, [4] p.
With an article on The National Trust by Hugh Casson from the Observer newspaper, Sunday 11 September 1955 loosely inserted in volume 1.
Vol. 2 edited by J. Leyland: v. 3, edited by H. A. Tipping. Vols. 2-3 illustrated from photographs by C. Latham
With decorative chapter headpieces designed by Arthur Rackham, Harold Nelson, Eleanor Fortescue Brickdale and Edmund J. Sullivan
The book carries no publication date. Date taken from the entry for the book in the Oxford University Library catalogue.
Vols. 2-3 have imprint: London, The Offices of Country life ... George Newnes ... ; New York, Charles Scribner's Sons.
Imperfect: Wanting Volume 3.

Binding Note

Green cloth boards with gilt titles and decoration to upper cover and spine. All edges gilt.

Subject

Country homes - Great Britain
Lanscape architecture

Contributors