Old Fashioned Flowers by Sacheverell SITWELL
SITWELL, Sacheverell; FARLEIGH, John (Illus.). Old Fashioned Flowers. London: Country Life Limited, 1939. Printed at the Curwen Press.
First edition. Chapters include “The Jacobean Florist”, “The Auricula”, “The Old Primrose and Polyanthus”, “The Old English Tulip”, “Carnations and Pinks”, “Old Fashioned Roses”, “Fuchsias”, and “The Nineteenth Century Florist”. With a Postscript and Cultural Notes and Information.
A fascinating and attractive book, illustrated by John Farleigh (1900-1965), one of the great wood engravers of the twentieth century, best known as illustrator of Bernard Shaw. He was commissioned by most of the influential private presses and commercial book publishers of the period and illustrated over twenty books.
193 pp; illustrated title page + 11 colour plates, text engravings. Royal 8vo, original cloth, gt lettering to spine. Very good in very good minus dust jacket (some foxing, price neatly excised; neat tape repair to top of spine)