Underwood, Loring

The Garden and Its Accessories, with explanatory illustrations.

Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1907.

Octavo (19 x 13 cm.), 215 pages. Illustrated with halftones throughout. Top edge gilt. FIRST EDITION. An overview of the physical elements of the garden, including summer houses, pergolas, trellises, bowers, sun dials, gazing globes, bird houses, bee skeps, fountains, walls, terraces, etc. Underwood was a respected nature photographer, and son of William Underwood of the eponymous canned food company. Frontispiece tissue guard lightly foxed. In attractive publisher's decorated green cloth, gilt-titled and decorated with an image of a pergola and fountain, in white and green. Overall very good.

Price: $90.00