Lost demesnes : Irish landscape gardening, 1660-1845
by Edward Malins & the Knight of Glin ; foreword by Desmond Guinness
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0214202755
- ISBN 13
- 9780214202759
- Seller
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Rochester, Kent, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Signed by the Knight of Glin on title page. This copy from the library of Patricia, Countess Jellicoe (popularly known as Patsy Jellicoe) with her signature, place and date inscribed on front free endpaper. Errata slip inserted. Desmond Guinness is identified on the title page as President of the Irish Georgian Society. Desmond Fitzgerald is identified as The Knight of Glin. xvi, 208 pages : illustrations ; 31 cm. First edition, first printing. Black boards, unclipped dust jacket (now in a removable protective sleeve). Shelf wear to edges, tight and square binding. Photographs available on request. All books dispatched same or next working day in robust packaging.
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- Bookseller
- Springhead Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 016648
- Title
- Lost demesnes : Irish landscape gardening, 1660-1845
- Author
- Edward Malins & the Knight of Glin ; foreword by Desmond Guinness
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0214202755
- ISBN 13
- 9780214202759
- Publisher
- Barrie & Jenkins
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1976
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