Buy this book on-line Maxwell, Sir Herbert : Scottish Gardens. Being A Representative Selection of different Types, Old and New(London: Edward Arnold, 1908)
No. 63 of an édition de luxe, limited to two hundred and fifty copies. 4to; original cream buckram with gilt pictorial upper cover and spine; t.e.g.; pp. x + 252; thirty-two mounted colour plates, with captioned tissue-guards. Ex-library copy. Good condition. Cloth lightly soiled; library code to tail of spine; pocket or label scarring, codes and hand-stamps to endpapers; endpapers and outer leaves rather foxed; flyleaf and last printed page browned; occasional spotting. This book provides a virtual tour of the more famous Scottish gardens, along with appendices with information on Rhododendron and other shrub species suitable for Scottish gardens. The gardens discussed and illustrated are those at Malleny, Ardgowan, Whitehouse, Monreith, Gartincaber, Princes Street (Edinburgh), Baberton, Pollok, Stonefield, Castle Kennedy, The Hirsel, South Bantaskine, Colinton House, Corrour, Kellie Castle, Auchencruive, Barskimming, Cawdor Castle, the Manse at Fyvie, Sunderland Hall, Balcaskie, Balcarres, Carnock, Kelburne Castle, Culzean, Leckie, Dalzell Castle, Barncluith, Dunrobin, Stobhall, Raeden House, and Cocker's Nursery. Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of Maxwell, Sir Herbert : Scottish Gardens. Being A Representative Selection of different Types, Old and New. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Bibliophile Bookbase lists over 5 million books, maps and prints including livres illustrées, rare books, livres d'occasion, first editions and incunabula. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |