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[Gardening] Jekyll, Gertrude Wood and Garden. Notes and Thoughts, Practical and Critical, of a Working Amateur London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1899. First edition. 8vo. Presentation copy to the English painter George D(unlap) Leslie, from his library and with his book-plate mounted to the interior A.L.s leaf on the front paste-down. With two Jekyll autograph letters, signed to Leslie mounted to front paste-down and endpaper. Illustrated with frontispiece and photo-plates. Foxing to endpapers, small tape residue on front blanks. Publisher's blue cloth; stamped in gilt; edges untimmed, slightly shaken, spine faded, joints frayed, edges lightly worn, covers slightly scuffed. . Author's first book