Fine illustrations of Japanese horticulture
DU CANE, Ella (illustrator). Florence DU CANE (author). The Flowers and Gardens of Japan. London: A & C Black. 1908.
Large 8vo. Original eggshell cloth pictorially blocked in dark green with designs of Japanese gardens to spine and upper cover, lettered gilt, top edge gilt; pp. x, 249, [2, advertisements]; title with pictorial vignette printed in green and 50 fine coloured plates protected by captioned tissue-guards; minimal traces of handling to the delicate cloth, toning to endpapers, as usual, otherwise a very clean and attractive copy, both externally and internally.
Reprint with unchaged publication date. A finely illustrated account of Japanese gardens with discussion of their topographical settings and variety, landscape gardening and gardens, garden ornaments and fences, nursery gardens, dwarf trees and Hachi-Niwa, temple gardens, blossom trees, and other ornamental plants.
Inman. A & C Black Colour Books 48.
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