The Garden That I Love. de Austin, Alfred - 1906

London: MacMillan and Co., Limited, 1898. 168 pp. Olive cloth covers with gilt image of flowers, faded gilt title lettering on front and spine. Cover corners are bumped and rubbed to boards, edges rubbed, fading to color, dirt smudges and wear to cover faces, rubbing to joints, wear to spine, spine ends are torn and fraying. Loose hinges. Foxing to endpapers and throughout interior pages. Spine broken within interior. Browning along edges of interior. Book in Good- to Good condition.. Fourth Edition. Cloth. Good. Illus. by Drawings. Size: Approx. 5 1/4" x 8 1/4". Memoir.

Macmillan & Co, 1902. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1902. Reprinted, 10th thousand. 168 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. Includes illustrations. Pages have deckled edges. Publisher's adverts to rear. Pages have some foxing, tanning and minor thumbing. Front endpaper has been removed. Hinges are intensely cracked with exposed netting, and feeling very loose. Foxing more intense towards the start and end of the book. Pencil inscriptions to pre title page. Text block edges are very uneven. Boards have some edge wear, with slight bumping and fraying to corners, while spine ends are very crushed and frayed and torn. Slightly scratched, rubbed and marked overall. Slight water staining to front. Spine is noticeably sunned. Book has a heavy forward lean. Gilt is dulled and worn.

Macmillan and Co., 1902. Hardcover. Good. . Spine faded. General shelf wear. Light foxing here and there throughout. Overall clean.

Macmillan and Co, 1896. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1896. Reprinted. 168 pages. No dust jacket. This is an ex-Library book. Green cloth with gilt. Library copy, with expected inserts, stamps and inscriptions. Pages have mild tanning and foxing throughout, moderate at end-papers, paste-downs and text-block edges. Some occasional mild cracking to gutters throughout, binding remains reasonably firm. Hinges are cracked with exposed netting. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Moderate crushing to spine ends, with splitting, fraying and loss to the head, tail and joints. Book has a slight forward lean. Card panels have mild rubbing with minor pencil mark to front cover. Moderate tanning to spine.

London: Macmillan and Co., 1899. Hardcover. Very Good. . Green cloth cover with gilt decoration shows minor wear, tanning on the spine. Pages are lightly tanned and foxed.

Green cloth w/gray & black border, gold lettering show some rub wear. Front end binding somewhat loose. Top Edge Gilt. Fabulous pictorial frontispiece and 15 other color plates of lovely gardens enahnce this book.

Adam and Charles Black. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1905. Reprint. Hardcover. Cover minor spotting/owner name & bookplate; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 146 pages .

LONDON: ADAM AND CHARLES BLACK, 1906. 1906 REPRINT . Hardcover. VERY GOOD PLUS/NoNE. ELGOOD GEORGE. BOUND IN GREEN WITH BLUE AND BLACK GEOMETRIC BORDER 16 BEAUTIFUL COLOR DRAWINGS COMPLETE WITH TISSUE GUARDS BY GEORGE ELGOOD VERY LIGHT WEAR AT TOP OF SPINE NICE GILT LETTERING TOP OF TEXTBLOCK IS GILT SOME TINY SPOTS ON OUTSIDE OF FOREDGE OTHERWISE TEXTBLOCK IS CLEAN AND BRIGHT FIRM COPY WITH VERY LIGHT WEAR TO CORNERS A LOVELY BOOK

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London, UK: Macmillan & Co, 1902. Hardcover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 168pp. Blue cloth-covered boards; gilt titles on front and spine, text block edges untrimmed. 8vo. Sun-faded spine; rubbed corners and spine ends, cloth wearing. Light soiling and staining to boards; volume quite loose. Top text block edge dusty, remaining edges tanning and foxing. Endpapers and prelims foxing and tanning. '1/6' on front free endpaper. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. A description in lucid and graceful prose of an old-fashioned garden and its cultivation, interspersed with genial colloquies between its owners and their guests interspersed with occasional verse.