Author: CAMERON, R.
Title: Great Comp and Its Garden: One Couple's Achievement in Seven Acres
Description: Maidstone, UK, Bachman & Turner Publications, 1981. Hardcover. 4to. Blue paper over boards with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 184pp. Numerous illustrations, maps, map endpapers. Near fine/near fine. Faint floral mustiness. Attractive and tight first edition of this fascinating history of this 17th century manor in Kent, England, and Roderick and wife Joyce's decades-long achievement in turning its few acres into a famed horticultural wonder. Roderick's co-creator wife, who dies in 1992, boldly signs in blue fineline facing the half-title page, dating it 10 May 1983. A lovely, unusual copy. .

Keywords: Natural History


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