My Garden Prior, John Templer 2023,Gardens, Landscape & Agriculture

PRIOR, John Templer. My Garden. First edition. 71, [1]p., decorative title-page, 12 photographic plates with tissue-guards. A fine copy in original grey boards with red linen spine. Private owner's name stamp of Alice Parker, on the end-paper and inner boards. Scarce small 4to. Elkin Mathews. 1908. ~ John Templer Prior (1841-1922), was the elder brother of the architect Edward Prior who was instrumental in establishing the arts and crafts movement. He lived at Red House, Harrow on the Hill, the extensive alterations and additions to which provided an early commission for his brother's fledgling career. This poetic record of the garden at Red House, is well illustrated with views, and includes his ode to "The Rubbish Heap'. It is a very scarce book, Copac recording 5 copies (Cambridge, NLS, Trinity College, Dublin, BL, and Oxford). OCLC adds Alabama.