[71] pp.

9″ x 7.5″

Illustrated by Joan Charleton

Tomasina Hodgson.

London. Nicholas Kaye. 1963. First edition

Green cloth-bound hardback, dust jacket

72 pp.

Numerous text illustrations and 5 b&w plates

225 x 190mm (8 x 7″). 0.35kg. .

English. Very good, in very good dust jacket;

A light-hearted but practical vintage guide to flower arranging, with chapters such as ‘Show Etiquette’, ‘Both Sides of the Table’ and ‘Christmas Frenzy’.

The text is accompanied by Charleton’s amusing illustrations and the whole is wrapped in her exquisite dust jacket.