Jason Hill — The Curious Gardener

London, Faber and Faber, 1932. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this illustrated gardening work, with the original unclipped dust wrapper. First edition. With the vanishingly scarce original unclipped dust wrapper. Illustrated with five plates and two vignettes. Collated complete. A charming work for those who love their gardens and wish to add to their beauty or unusualness. With guides on selecting flowers, how to cultivate, and the design of a garden. Written by Jason Hill, a British horticulturalist. Illustrated by John Northcote Nash, a British painter of landscapes and still-lives, and a wood engraver and illustrator, particularly of botanic works. In the original brown cloth binding. Externally, very smart with light rubbing to the extremities. Original unclipped dust wrapper is sound with light shelf wear and minor chipping to the extremities. The odd small closed tear to the panel edges with light sunning to the spine. Spotting to the panels. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with the odd spot. Light scattered spotting to the endpapers. Very Good . Ill.: John Nash. Very Good/Good.