Samuel Reynolds Hole — Our Gardens

London, J. M. Dent & Co. 1899 . Cloth. A handsome 1899 Haddon Hall Library edition of Hole"s reflective garden classic, illustrated with plates. In the publisher's original green cloth binding with gilt. Third edition, published as part of the Haddon Hall Library in 1899. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece, nine monochrome plates, and two in-text plans. Collated, complete. A reflective and anecdotal work on gardening, Hole ranges across flowers, seasons, garden fashions, and the social pleasures of gardening. S. R. Hole was an Anglican priest, author and horticulturalist. In his lifetime he received the Royal Horticultural Society's Victoria Medal of Honour, and he is memorialised by a life-size marble figure at Rochester Cathedral. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, smart. Slight rubbing and bumping to extremities. Slight fading to spine. The odd small ink mark to upper perimeter of front board towards head of spine. One or two handling marks to boards. Slight cockling to spine. Slight rubbing to boards. The odd spot to endpapers. Previous owner's contemporary ink inscription to Haddon Hall Library edition page. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean with the odd spot, heavier to first and last few leaves and fore edge. One or two handling marks to fore edge. Very Good . Ill.: None Stated. Very Good .