Colour Schemes for the Flower Garden
Salem, NH: Ayer Company, 1983. First edition thus. Hardcover. First printing of this edition, introduced and revised by Graham Stuart Thomas. Hardcover. xxx with glossary + 159 pp. with index. Profusely illustrated with black and white photos and with diagrams as well as 13 color plates. Originally published in London in 1908, this is Jekyll's definitive statement on how a garden can look its best, using the principles of color for year round pleasure. It was Jekyll's aim to approach the garden as a canvas and to plant flowers in combinations that form a painting---a work of art. her "drifts of color" were compared to Monet's garden paintings with this difference: Monet planted his gardens to paint them while Jekyll's gardens WERE her paintings. Fine / fine. Item #E37286
ISBN: 0881430005
Price: $18.50