Bodley Head Booklet - Boland (Maureen). Garden Lore.

Garden Lore: Extracts from Old Wives' Lore for Gardeners. Foolscap 8vo, pp.16 (inc. colophon), Printed at the Stellar Press for private distribution by the publishers for Christmas 1976.

One of 250 copies on wove paper. 6 full-page illustrations in green taken from sixteenth-century herbals. Sewn into plain card covers, buff paper dust-jacket with an additional illustration on the front and rear panel. A fine copy.

Presentation copy [to Tony Appleton]: 'Thanks for your lovely cards. With best wishes to you both, John [Ryder].'