Pot-Pourri From a Surrey Garden. More Pot-Pourri From a Surrey Garden. Pot-Pourri Mixed by Two. A Third Pot-Pourri. by Earle, Mrs C.W. [& Case, Miss Ethel]

London: Smith, Elder & Co Four volumes. Pot-Pourri From a Surrey Garden, thirteenth edition, 1898, age-toned but otherwise clean and tight internally, cloth slightly worn, the spine browned, frayed at its head. With the bookplate of Isabella Louise Aitken. More Pot-Pourri From a Surrey Garden, fourth impression, 1900, an inscription opposite the half-title, a little age-toned internally and with occasional foxing, cloth very faded and a little bubbled, the spine rather worn at the top and lacking a piece, a split to the upper joint. Pot-Pourri Mixed by Two, first edition, 1914, fore-edge foxed but otherwise very clean internally, cloth faded and a little marked, with the bookplate of Dorothy Mary Gladstone, and the later bookplate of Alan Titchmarsh. A Third Pot-Pourri, second edition, 1903, an inscription to the first blank, foxing to the edges but otherwise very clean internally, cloth slightly marked and blotched, the spine slightly age-toned. A heavy set - extre postage will be needed. [Earle was born in 1836 in London into the Villiers family. She was invited to serve at Queen Victoria's court but refused in 1856. Her family gave her the nickname of "Radical Theresa".[ She and her husband moved to a new house in Cobham in Surrey called Woodlands, although she had a house in London too. There, she turned her interest to gardening and her creation was admired. She had help from one gardener and his boy assistant. In 1897 her gardening guide Pot-Pourri from a Surrey Garden was published. She had been encouraged to write this by friends and had been supported by Constance Lytton who typed some of the text. The book sold quickly and well and in this later edition Lady Constance Lytton has added a section of Japanese flower arranging. In 1899 she published "More Pot-pourri from a Surrey Garden". There were eventually three Pot-purri books and they were said to be the model for the early books of Gertrude Jekyll, who became a friend of hers. There were no more of her own gardening books but she collaborated with Ethel Case on two others. Earle died at her home, Woodlands, in Cobham in 1925. Earle was a vegetarian. She advocated a vegetarian diet in her book Diet Difficulties with Notes on Growing Vegetables, published in 1908. She promoted a fruit and vegetable diet in which coffee and tea are forbidden. Earle was Constance Lytton's aunt and converted her to vegetarianism.She was influenced by Alexander Haig's dietary theories. Her book A Third Pot-Pourri (1903) covered diet, health and vegetarianism. Adela Curtis, who taught meditation and was also a vegetarian assisted in preparing the book.. Mixed editions. Cloth. Good.