Rose Standish Nichols — English Pleasure Gardens

New York, The Macmillan Company, 1902. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this illustrated work on the English Pleasure Garden. First edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece, ten plans, sixty-five plates, and many in-text images. Collated complete. A detailed historical commentary on English Pleasure Gardens, with chapters on the pleasure grounds, monastic gardens, Tudor gardens, Elizabethan flower gardens, French fashions, Italian villa gardens, and much more. Written by Rose Standish Nichols, an American landscape architect. Illustrated by the author and Allen Howard Cox, an American architect. In the original cream pictorial cloth binding. Externally, smart with rubbing and light bumping to the extremities. Fading to the spine and the odd mark to the boards. Hinges starting but firm. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with light spotting to the endpapers. Good . Ill.: Rose Standish Nichols; Allen H. Cox. Good .