Old Time Gardens: A Book of the Sweet o' the Year / Alice Morse Earle
Book
489 pages. Illustrations, plates.
Profusely illustrated with black and white photographs of old gardens from Savannah, Charleston, and Mt. Vernon north through New York.
Fore-edge untrimmed and partially unopened.
Contents:
1. Colonial Garden-making
2. Front Dooryards
3. Varied Garden Fair
4. Box Edgings
5. The Herb Garden
6. In Lilac Tide
7. Old Flower Favorites
8. Comfort Me With Apples
9. Gardens of the Poets
10. The Charm of Color
11. The Blue Flower Border
12. Plant Names
13. Tussy-Mussies
14. Joan Silver-Pin
15. Childhood in a Garden
16. Meetin' Seed and Sabbath Day Posies
17. Sun-Dials, etc.
2015.7.231
Kathleen V. Roberts Collection of Decorated Publishers' Bindings
Gardens1900s
8 in
Alice Morse Earle
First
New York
New York
United States
North America
1901
Publisher's Binding
Grey decorated cloth with pictorial stamping of pedestal in white with trellises of pale blue, pink and white flowers. Motif repeated on spine. Titles in gilt. Illustrated endpapers depicting green foliage. Top edge gilt.
Gift inscription.