[Gardens]

i) Sowerby, John and C. Pierpoint Johnson. British Wild Flowers. Gurney and Jackson. 1902, frontispeice plus 89 colour plates, 2 black and white plates, some pages and plates loose; ii) Hadfield, Miles. Gardening in Britain. Hutchinson, 1960, dust-jacket, jacket worn at extremities; iii) Lees-Milne, Alvilde and Rosemary Verey. The Englishman's Garden. Allen Lane, 1982, inscribed by the author, dust-jacket; iv) Jackson-Stops, Gervase. An English Arcadia. The National Trust, 1991, inscribed by the author, dust-jacket; v) Snowdon, Lord. Wild Flowers by Snowdon. Pavilion, 1995, inscribed by Snowdon, dust-jacket; vi) Johnson, Owen (ed.) Champion Trees. Whittet, 2003, with a foreword by Deborah, Duchess of Devonshire, dust-jacket; together with 15 others, of which 4 inscribed to the Duchess, mostly 4to, original cloth and wrappers, all with the Duchess's bookplate (21)

Condition is described in the main body of the cataloguing, where appropriate.
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This lot also includes the Duchess' own copy of The Tulip by Anna Pavord, which she reviewed for The Daily Telegraph in December 1998. She writes, "The Tulip is too heavy to read in bed but once you have started there is no question of going to bed so it doesn't matter."