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Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. Ellen Willmott (illustrator). A scarce folio capturing the charming views of Warley Garden, designed by prominent horticulturist Ellen Willmott. The second edition of this scarce folio.A striking visual tour through the gardens of Warley Place, Essex, the previous home of English horticulturist Ellen Willmott. Willmott's inherited wealth allowed her to buy large gardens in France and Italy to add to Warley and more than 60 plants have been after her or her home.In the original quarter cloth binding, with paper covered boards. Label to the front board.Collated, complete with a frontispiece and forty photographic plates, featuring charming views of dog's-tooth violets, the orchard garden in June, lily pool, an old-fashioned border, the garden house and more. In the original quarter cloth binding, with paper covered boards and label to the front board. Externally, smart, with minor damp running along the edges of the boards. Mild rubbing and bumping to the extremities. Bookplate of one Bryan Hall to the front pastedown. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and generally clean, with scattered spotting to the endpapers and the odd spot to the contents. Very Good. book.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 2-volume set. Folio. Half-morocco in green with green cloth boards, covers with minimal wear. Leaf ix/x of the introduction detached and chipped. Pages tanned and clean. The complete set of 25 parts bound in 2 volumes, with 132 chromolithographic plates protected by tissue, 87 black and white plates, numerous in-text illustrations. Near fine copies.

Softcover. Alfred Parsons (illustrator). First Edition. Folio (11" x 15") in printed wrappers housed in two green morocco-backed slipcases with chemises. The complete set of 25 individual parts of the most important work on roses in the twentieth century, illustrated with 132 chromolithograph plates after watercolours by Alfred Parsons, 87 black and white plates, and numerous illustrations in the text. RIX, THE ART OF THE BOTANIST, 1981: "The first great colour-printed book of the twentieth century it still stands unrivalled, both as an account of the species and as a source of illustrations of wild roses." Ellen Willmott (1858 - 1934) was a celebrated English horticulturist, prominent member of the Royal Horticultural Society, one of the first two women to be admitted into the Linnaean Society, and one of the first recipients of the Victoria Medal of Honour in 1897. At the front of the chemise for the first volume is pasted an original and beautiful manuscript presentation dated September 1929 to William Adams Delano for work on the exhibitions for the International Flower Show. Delano was an American architect and a partner with Chester Holmes Aldrich in the firm of Delano & Aldrich. He designed many of the buildings at Yale University as well as the second-largest residence in the United States, Oheka, overlooking Cold Spring Harbor on Long Island for financier Otto Kahn. He was also the architect for the 1927 renovation to the White House, which later led to structural problems and rebuilding during the Truman Administration. There are many small drawings and tracings throughout this set on loose pieces of paper, possibly by Delano. Plates strong and fresh; occasional paperclip impression at very top margin of some pages including plates; some pages loose or detached; light wear to wrappers, somewhat heavier wear to slipcases. Near Fine and quite scarce in original wrappers.