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    JEKYLL, Agnes, Barbara Freyberg, Pamela Mckenna (

    Editore: Billing & Sons,, Guildford,, 1937

    Da: Burwood Books, Wickham Market, Regno Unito

    Membro dell'associazione: PBFA

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    Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. First Edition. Hardback. No Dust Jacket. Large 8vo. pp xiii, 328. Original publisher's illustrated paper boards over cream cloth, lettered blue on spine. Privately printed by Pamela McKenna and Barbara Freyberg to commemorate their mother's life-- she had died in January 1937. Signed by her daughter and co- editor 'For Olga iwth Barbara's love." Also loosely inserted is a good signed letter from Barbara Freyberg to Olga(addressed as 'Oggie") --'Pamela and I have put [this] together as a little remembrance of Mother for her friends. It is taken from a manuscript book.very characteristic of her.I hope you will like it darling, I know you had an affection for her." Letter is dated Christmas 1937 and is on Clarendon Place, Hyde Park notepaper. A rare commonplace book (mostly) by the sister in law of the gardener, Gertrude Jekyll. Issued without a title page. Dame Agnes Jekyll, DBE (n e Graham; 12 October 1861 28 January 1937) was a British artist, writer and philanthropist. The daughter of William Graham, Liberal MP for Glasgow (1865 1874) and patron of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, sister-in-law of the famous gardener. A collection of aphorisms, poems, apercus, short essays, and quotations that Jekyll enjoyed- they touch on matters culinary and botanical and inc citations pertaining the Great War. From Macchiavelli to Meredith and Masefield via Jane Austen and Anna Sedgwick. Olga or "Oggie", is almost certainly the food-writer Olga Hartley who wrote a recipe book with Mrs Leyel and shared an interest in kitchens, food and cookery with Agnes Jekyll in the 1920s when they both published cookery related books. Some slight patchybrowning at spine, corners slightly rubbed else very good with very clean text. Signedes.