Author: Gertrude Jekyll
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781528709972
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
This vintage book contains an insightful account based on the author's lifelong experiences in Surrey, England during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It is a chronicle of the ways and lives of the older working class people of the area with whom the author was familiar, who represented to the author a dying breed belonging to a soon-to-be bygone era. Gertrude Jekyll (1843 - 1932) was a British garden designer, horticulturist, photographer, craftswoman, artist, and writer. She is responsible for designing and creating over 400 gardens in the United Kingdom, Europe and the United States, as well as writing more than 1,000 articles for related magazines. She is credited with having had a significant influence on gardening by both British and American enthusiasts. Contents include: Cottages and Farms," "The Old Furniture of Cottage and Farmhouse," "The Cottage Fireside," "Candle-Light and Candlesticks," "Cottage Ornaments," "Crockers and Table Ware," "Home Industries," "Carious Articles Found in Cottages," "Tools and Rural Industries," Many vintage books such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive. We are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially-commissioned new introduction on homesteading.
Old West Surrey - Some Notes and Memories - With 330 Illustrations from Photographs by the Author
Author: Gertrude Jekyll
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781528709972
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
This vintage book contains an insightful account based on the author's lifelong experiences in Surrey, England during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It is a chronicle of the ways and lives of the older working class people of the area with whom the author was familiar, who represented to the author a dying breed belonging to a soon-to-be bygone era. Gertrude Jekyll (1843 - 1932) was a British garden designer, horticulturist, photographer, craftswoman, artist, and writer. She is responsible for designing and creating over 400 gardens in the United Kingdom, Europe and the United States, as well as writing more than 1,000 articles for related magazines. She is credited with having had a significant influence on gardening by both British and American enthusiasts. Contents include: Cottages and Farms," "The Old Furniture of Cottage and Farmhouse," "The Cottage Fireside," "Candle-Light and Candlesticks," "Cottage Ornaments," "Crockers and Table Ware," "Home Industries," "Carious Articles Found in Cottages," "Tools and Rural Industries," Many vintage books such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive. We are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially-commissioned new introduction on homesteading.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781528709972
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
This vintage book contains an insightful account based on the author's lifelong experiences in Surrey, England during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It is a chronicle of the ways and lives of the older working class people of the area with whom the author was familiar, who represented to the author a dying breed belonging to a soon-to-be bygone era. Gertrude Jekyll (1843 - 1932) was a British garden designer, horticulturist, photographer, craftswoman, artist, and writer. She is responsible for designing and creating over 400 gardens in the United Kingdom, Europe and the United States, as well as writing more than 1,000 articles for related magazines. She is credited with having had a significant influence on gardening by both British and American enthusiasts. Contents include: Cottages and Farms," "The Old Furniture of Cottage and Farmhouse," "The Cottage Fireside," "Candle-Light and Candlesticks," "Cottage Ornaments," "Crockers and Table Ware," "Home Industries," "Carious Articles Found in Cottages," "Tools and Rural Industries," Many vintage books such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive. We are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially-commissioned new introduction on homesteading.
Old West Surrey
Author: Gertrude Jekyll
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cottages
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cottages
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
The Amateur Gardener's Rose Book
Author: Julius Hoffmann
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Rose culture
Languages : en
Pages : 224
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Rose culture
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Notes from Nature's Garden
Author: Frances Anne Bardswell
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ISBN:
Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
The Antiquary
Author: Edward Walford
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antiquities
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antiquities
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
Selections from the Writings of James Anthony Froude
Author: James Anthony Froude
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
Longman's Magazine
Author: Charles James Longman
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 646
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 646
Book Description
Everyday Life Among the Head-hunters
Author: Dorothy Cator
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Borneo
Languages : en
Pages : 324
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Borneo
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
A History of the Papacy from the Great Schism to the Sack of Rome: The Italian princes, 1464-1518. Appendix
Author: Mandell Creighton
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ISBN:
Category : Papacy
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Papacy
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description