Margery Fish — We Made a Garden

London; New York, W. H. & L. Collingridge Ltd; Transatlantic Arts, 1956. First edition. Cloth. The very scarce first edition of this delightful, illustrated work on designing the garden at East Lambrook Manor, encased in the especially scarce dust wrapper. The very scarce first edition (second impression). In the publisher's original cloth binding, together with the very scarce and unclipped dust wrapper. With a charming colour frontispiece, followed by eight pages of photographic plates. Collated, complete. Margery Fish was an influential gardening writer, whose garden at East Lambrook Manor helped shape the English cottage style of the mid twentieth century. She began gardening in 1938 when she moved with her husband, then the Editor of the Daily Mail, to their home in Somerset. In this work, Fish discusses the process of designing and building the garden, which she tended until her death in 1969 and is now Grade I listed and open to the public. In the publisher's original cloth binding, together with the very scarce and unclipped dust wrapper. Signed by a previous owner to the front free endpaper. Externally, smart with slight bumping and rubbing and more significant marking, most visible to the front board. Dust wrapper features a closed tear to the spine head and a more visible mark to the rear, otherwise very smart with minor edge wear and subtle spotting and discolouration. Internally, firmly bound. Very bright and clean with just the odd spot, more common to the first and last few pages. Very Good . Ill.: Not Stated. Very Good/Very Good Indeed.