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143. GREENE, Graham (author). Dorothy CRAIGIE (illustrator). The Little horse Bus. London, Max Parrish. 1952.
£598
Small slim 4to. original red cloth gilt, coloured pictorial endpapers, preserved in colourful pictorial dustwrapper; pp. [iv], 5-35; bold colour-printed plates throughout (including several double-page spreads) together with drawings in inky blue; an unusually nice copy, internally and externally near fine, preserved in an unclipped dustwrapper with very light dusting to spine, rubbing to corners, and a couple of almost invisible closed tears to top edge (maximum 15mm), now expertly repaired to the reverse with archival tissue.
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First edition of a scarce work. one of a series of four books, all illustrated by craigie, which Greene wrote for the children’s market.
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144. GREY, Edward (Viscount) and Eric Fitch DAGLISH (illustrator). Fly Fishing. J.M. Dent & Sons. 1930.
£1,298
Small 4to. Bound by Asprey in full brown morocco, gilt borders to sides, upper with gilt design of leaping fish and waterlilies, spine gilt in compartments with fly centre tools, gilt turn-ins, marbled endpapers top edges gilt; pp. x + 244, with 10 full-page wood-engravings and several smaller engravings in the text by Eric Fitch Daglish, this edition with extra proof engraving signed by the artist; a very nice copy.
First edition with these illustrations, this being no.32 of 150 numbered large-paper copies, signed by the author. This is a very handsome copy of Grey of Falloden’s classic book on fly-fishing which is illustrated with some of Fitch Daglish’s most delicate work.
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nuts with notes on fruit bottling drying and preserving anbd many recipes and 3. Pickles chutneys ketchup and herb vinegars with notes on tarragon and the general cultivation of herbs. A scarce set.
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145. GRIEVE, Mrs M. herbs and vegetables in the orchard and in the Wild. Chalfont St. Peter. M. Grieve. [1926].
£498
8vo., 3 volumes in original orange printed wrappers, stapled as issued. Rust staining at staples, light chipping to spines, edges mildly darkened otherwise a very good set, preserved in custom-made cloth flapcase.
First editions of these three pamphlets which together comprise Herbs and Vegetables in the Orchard and in the Wild. The individual titles are 1. Wild Vegetables and salads and their vitamin values with notes on vegetarian cookery & salad making. 2. Our native fruits edible berries &
oDnB: “Grieve [née Law], Sophia Emma magdalene [maud] (1858–1941), herb grower, was born on 4 may 1858 at 75 Upper Street, islington, London, the daughter of James Law, a warehouseman, and his wife, Sophia Ballisat. nothing further is known of her early life. She went to india with her husband, William Sommerville Grieve, and following his retirement they settled at The Whins, chalfont St Peter, Buckinghamshire, in 1905. There, from 1908, maud Grieve began to create a garden in which she grew medicinal and culinary herbs. in 1911 she became Buckinghamshire representative for the Daughters of ceres, a movement concerned with increasing the opportunities for women in horticultural jobs. At the beginning of the First World War, when the government asked civilians to grow medicinal herbs, she helped to start the national herb Growing Association, which organized the collection and drying of herbs, and set up a training school at The Whins. in 1918 she became the first president of the British Guild of herb Growers. She wrote pamphlets on individual herbs, with a history of each plant and directions for its cultivation, harvesting, and drying, and these were distributed by mail order with the seeds; she also issued a series of booklets, including Soil and its care (1921), Fungi as Food and in medicine (1925), and herbs and vegetables in the orchard and in the Wild (1926). After the war she trained former servicemen, some of whom went to the colonies to start herb farms.
When her elderly husband’s health failed, she closed her training school in 1929, giving many of her plants to Dorothy hewer at Seal. in collaboration with hilda Leyel, founder of culpeper house, she compiled A modern herbal (1931), the first herbal since the publication of John Lindley’s Flora medica in 1838, which became a standard work of reference. maud Grieve died at Townsend house, Barkway, hertfordshire, on 20 December 1941.”
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