Eleanour Sinclair Rohde — Herbs and Herb Gardening

London, Medici Society , 1936. First edition. Cloth. A scarce first edition of this gardening volume on herbs, by horticultural writer Eleanour Sinclair Rohde. The scarce first edition. In the publisher's original green cloth binding. With a coloured frontispiece, fourteen monochrome plates and numerous in-text illustrations. Collated, complete. This book covers the uses and the cultivation of herbs in exhaustive detail and is still of great practical use today. With advice on the making of a herb garden and the use of herbs for decorative effect in the flower garden.Written by British gardener, garden designer and horticultural writer, Eleanour Sinclair Rohde. She authored thirty publications on gardening and its history, most well-known of all being her book 'The Scented Garden&apos. In the original green cloth binding. Externally, very smart, with fading to the spine cloth. Slight rubbing and bumping to the extremities. Internally, firmly bound with generally bright and clean pages. Minor offsetting to the front and rear blanks and light spotting to the title page. Very Good . Ill.: Not Stated. Very Good .