(Trade Catalogue - Garden Furniture)DARTINGTON HALL LTD   GARDENS CATALOGUE.      Totnes, South Devon: Gardens Department, Dartington Hall,   (1935).          A general catalogue for Gardens Department of Dartington Hall Ltd., whose commercial nurseries and workshops were one of the idealistic projects undertaken by Leonard and Dorothy Elmhirst as part of the restoration of this 14th century Devon estate. These nurseries, started at the suggestion of Aray Tipping to help fund the large gardens of the Hall (designed by Beatrix Farrand in 1933), no longer exist as they did when the catalogue was published. It is an an impressive catalogue for its time, with numerous handsome wood-engraved illustrations of plants and of the garden furniture, ornamental gates and fencing produced by the Dartington saw mill. An illustrated booklet entitled LANDSCAPE GARDENING, enclosed within a pocket in the rear cover, also promotes their landscape design services. This seems to have been the only catalogue issued by Dartington Hall Ltd. and only two copies (V&A and NYBG) are listed in OCLC.   Oblong 8vo (18 x 24 cm); 224 pp. with illustrations from wood-engravings + 22 pp. booklet, 15.5 x 21 cm, in rear pocket.            Original stiff paper wraps with wood-engraved illustrations reproduced on covers, some foxing to paper, one letter of printed cover title rubbed away, spine ends worn; rear pocket booklet a bit wrinkled; internally very good. $250.00

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