Old Time Gardens: A Book of the Sweet o' the Year / Alice Morse Earle

Name/Title

Old Time Gardens: A Book of the Sweet o' the Year / Alice Morse Earle

Entry/Object ID

2015.7.231

Description

489 pages. Illustrations, plates. Profusely illustrated with black and white photographs of old gardens from Savannah, Charleston, and Mt. Vernon north through New York. Fore-edge untrimmed and partially unopened. Contents: 1. Colonial Garden-making 2. Front Dooryards 3. Varied Garden Fair 4. Box Edgings 5. The Herb Garden 6. In Lilac Tide 7. Old Flower Favorites 8. Comfort Me With Apples 9. Gardens of the Poets 10. The Charm of Color 11. The Blue Flower Border 12. Plant Names 13. Tussy-Mussies 14. Joan Silver-Pin 15. Childhood in a Garden 16. Meetin' Seed and Sabbath Day Posies 17. Sun-Dials, etc.

Collection

Kathleen V. Roberts Collection of Decorated Publishers' Bindings

Lexicon

Search Terms

Gardens, 1900s

Dimensions

Height

8 in

Book Details

Author

Alice Morse Earle

Edition

First

Publisher

Macmillan & Company

Place Published

City

New York

State/Province

New York

Country

United States

Continent

North America

Date Published

1901

Binding

Binding Type

Publisher's Binding

Binding Notes

Grey decorated cloth with pictorial stamping of pedestal in white with trellises of pale blue, pink and white flowers. Motif repeated on spine. Titles in gilt. Illustrated endpapers depicting green foliage. Top edge gilt.

Notes

Gift inscription.