Author: DU CANE, ELISA AND FLORENCE,
Title: Flowers and Gardens of Japan. [First edition].
Description: London, Adam & charles Black, 1908. Stout medium 8°. Original publ. cloth. Gilded title on front cover and spine with monochrome illustrations, top edge gilded. Hftitle (verso with name list of agents). (ix), 249pp. ti.-p. with a small coloured illustration, captioned coloured frontispiece, 48 fine coloured plates after original watercolours by Ellen Du Cane, all captioned on tissue guards, illustrating japanese flowers and flowering shrubs and trees in a topographical setting, list of illustrations, [2]pp. of publ. advert at rear end, table of contents. A brief and finely illustrated account of flowers and flowering trees and shrubs of japanese gardens with their topographical settings and variety, landscape gardening and gardens, garden ornaments and fences, nursery gardens dwarf trees and Hachi-Niwa, temple gardens, blossom trees, other variets. A very fine untrimmed copy in orig. publ. cloth. (recte of second fly leaf a bit discoloured).

Keywords: japan landscape gardening flowers shrubs trees blossom flora survey watercolours culture gardenarchtecture far east asia