Description: I have here for sale a book entitled OLD WEST SURREY Some Notes and Memories by Gertrude Jekyll. It is a first edition published by Longmans, Green and Co, London in 1904. It has 330 b/w photographic illustrations throughout the book, some of which are full page. The area covered is from the Hog's Back to the North to the Weald of Sussex to the south. We wander from South of Dorking on the east to Woolmer Forest and Gilbert White's country in the west. Gertrude Jekyll grew up in this area and has focused her affectionate account of the area on the smaller details - articles of furniture, ordinary household items found in the cottages and farmhouses, the cottage industries, tools used, rural industries like wheelwrights, cottage gardens, churchyards, and even smuggling in the area. A wonderful look at the Surrey of a bygone era.Gertrude Jekyll, the famous horticulturist, garden designer, craftswoman, photographer, writer and artist, grew up in this area of Surrey from the age of 5 and bought and redesigned the gardens in her home, Munstead Wood, near Godalming.Bound in olive green cloth hardboards with gilt title lettering set within a decorative oval framework to the front board and spine. Spine slightly darkened and bumped to head and tail. Boards firm. Black endpapers. Binding is pulling a little. Spotting to page edges. Paper is glossy. Overall in very good condition. 320 pages, 24 x 16 cm.We have over 2000 items in our Ebay shop on a range of subjects, so please feel free to have a browse and see if anything else takes your fancy.Postage will be by Air Mail outside of UK. If you buy more than one item then the postage cost falls for the second and further items as I will put them into one parcel - so you save money. We wrap and post the parcels on Monday and Tuesday - therefore if you pay before midday on Tuesday we will get it in the postal sacks on Tuesday night, and if it is after that time then it will go into the postal service on the following Monday. pages
Price: 49.99 GBP
Location: Whitegate, Cheshire
End Time: 2025-02-03T20:36:07.000Z
Shipping Cost: 44.66 GBP
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Return postage will be paid by: Buyer
Returns Accepted: Returns Accepted
After receiving the item, your buyer should cancel the purchase within: 30 days
Binding: Hardback
Non-Fiction Subject: Topography & Local Interest
Language: English
Special Attributes: 1st Edition
Region: Europe
Original/Reproduction: Original
Author: GERTRUDE JEKYLL
Publisher: LONGMANS GREEN AND CO
Year Printed: 1904
Original/Facsimile: Original
