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Title: Guides to Sissinghurst Castle and Sissinghurst Castle Garden
Description: Bedford; Hatfield, The Sidney Press; The National Trust, 1966-1984. Paperback. Three brightly illustrated volumes of visitor's guides to Vita Sackville-West's ancestral home, Sissinghurst Castle, and its gardens, designed by Sackville-West herself. Three very scarce guide's to Kent's Sissingurst Castle, and its garden, the estate of novelist and gardener Vita Sackville-West, and her biographer husband Harold Nicholson.The first work present, published prior to the National Trust's involvement at Sissinghurst, is the 1966 second edition of the Sissinghurst Castle Illustrated Guide, providing a detailed description of the house and garden, and illustrated throughout with photographic plates.The next work present is the 1973 fifth edition of the prior work, published after the National Trust took control of Sissinghurst, and illustrated with colour photographic plates.The final work present is the 1984 reprint of the 'Sissinghurst Castle Garden' guide, illustrated throughout with colour photographic plates, and with an illustrated map of the gardens. In the publisher's original pictorial paper wraps. Externally, excellent. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Fine . Ill.: Not Stated. Fine .

Keywords: Vita Sackville-West garden national trust sissinghurst garden Not Stated


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