Thaxter

Thaxter, Celia: An island garden. With pictures and illuminations by Childe Hassam.
Boston & New York, Houghton Mifflin & Cambridge, Mass., The Riverside Press, 1895, 1. edition, 2. impression, pp. ix, 126, 12 colour-plates with captions on flimsies, 1 plain plate of the plan of the garden with list of flowers, 10 ornamental floral decorations in text, large 8vo (160 x 230 mm), top-edge gilt, others trimmed, finely gilt-lettered and decorated light green cloth with stylized floral pattern (partly lightly stained and pinhole in spine). Nice copy.

€ 600

American literary classic on gardening in the second impression. The first was printed in 1894, and only the year on the title-page was changed. The bright chromolithographed plates and text-illustrations by the early American impressionist Childe Hassam. Her garden on Appledore Island, which Celia Thaxter here describes, is still extant and forms a faithful recreation of the garden she grew in 1893. It is now maintained by volunteers of Shoals Marine Laboratory.