Dropmore Press - On the Making of Gardens, by Sir George Sitwell.

On the Making of Gardens, by Sir George Sitwell. With an Introduction by Sir Osbert Sitwell, and decorations by John Piper. 8vo, xvi, 113pp, illustrations, 24 cm, The Dropmore Press, Great Ormod Street, London, 1949.

Set in Bembo and printed on Hodgkinson cream wove hand made paper. Frontispiece and 3 double-page illustrations in terracotta and black plus 2 full-page illustrations in blue and black. Number 101 of 900 (1,000) copies bound in full green buckram, titled and decorated in gilt. Pale-green dust-jacket, titled in reddish-brown and black, slightly faded at spine and fore-edge. A very good bright copy.