Robinson, William. The Wild Garden or the Naturalization and Natural Grouping of Hardy Exotic Plants with a Chapter on the Garden of British Wild Flowers. John Murray, London, 1895.

Price: US$750.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: Fifth and most elegant edition of William Robinson's classic argument that gardens observe the natural over the patterned and artificial in their planning and maintenance. Illustrated throughout with fine line drawings and engravings by Alfred Parsons, himself a garden designer including some notable projects in England, Scotland, and the United States. This edition was specially bound in full vellum by Birdsall. and limited to only 280 numbered copies, each signed. Horace Hart of the prestigious Oxford University Press was the Printer. This is copy number 9, warmly inscribed to Horace Hart. Endpapers with some foxing, the binding in fine condition.

Seller: John R. Sanderson, Bookseller , Stockbridge, MA, U.S.A.