[Gardening] Jekyll, Gertrude. Group of 10 Works, One Signed

Wall & Water Gardens
(London): Country Life, (1901). First edition, presentation copy, inscribed on half-title "G. Duff Gordon with love from Gertrude Jekyll June 29 1901." 4to. 177 pp. Blue-green cloth, stamped in gilt, boards soiled and extremities worn, front joint starting; prelims foxed; scattered light foxing.

Home and Garden...
London: Longmans, Green, and Co. 1901. New edition. 4to. 301 pp. Salmon colored cloth, stamped in gilt, front board and spine faded, soiled; all edges untrimmed; ownership signature on front paste-down; printed birthday card to Rennie Reynolds laid-in; prelims foxed.

Old West Surrey
London: Longmans, Green, and Co. 1904. 4to. 320 pp. Olive green cloth, stamped in gilt, spine faded, extremities worn; black endpapers; three gift inscriptions to half-title; light foxing to prelims.

Some English Gardens
London: Longmans, Green, and Co. 1905. Third edition. Folio. 131 pp. Blue cloth, stamped in gilt, worn; top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed; black endpapers; book-plate of Mary Clarke Thompson on front paste-down.

Colour in the Flower Garden
(London): Country Life, 1908. 4to. 149, (10) pp. (ads). Light blue cloth, stamped in gilt, extremities worn; all edges untrimmed; prelims and text offset or foxed; scattered closed tears to pages.

Wood & Garden...
Longmans, Green, And Co. 1910. Eleventh impression. 4to. 286 pp. Blue cloth, stamped in gilt, extremities worn and soiled; all edges untrimmed; gift inscription on front free endpaper signed "E.J." dated 1911; scattered foxing to prelims and text; printed birthday card to Rennie Reynolds laid-in.

Gardens for Small Country Houses...
London: Country Life, 1920. Fourth edition. Folio. 262 pp. Blue cloth, stamped in gilt; ownership signature to front free endpaper; original printed paper dust-jacket.

Garden Ornament
London: Country Life, (1927). Second edition. Double folio, 438 pp. Green cloth, stamped in gilt, extremities lightly worn; all edges gilt.

A Gardener's Testament...
London: Country Life, 1937. 4to. 259 pp. Light green cloth, stamped in gilt; scattered foxing.

Annuals and Biennials...
London: Country Life, n.d. 4to. 149, (16) pp. (ads). Light green cloth, stamped in green and in gilt; book-plate of E. Cleveland Morgan on front paste-down.

Property from the Collection of Renny Reynolds

This lot is located in Philadelphia.

Alasdair Nichol

EVP, Deputy Chairman

[email protected]267.414.1211

Alasdair Nichol is Deputy Chairman of Freeman's. He previously served as Chairman of Freeman's, and he and two colleagues acquired the company in a friendly management buy-out in 2016.

He joined Freeman’s in 1999, and as an auctioneer of almost 30 years, has sold many significant collections, including The George D. Horst Collection of Fine Art, The Lehman Brothers Collection, The Collection of Dorrance "Dodo" H. Hamilton, The Stanley Bard Collection: A Life at the Chelsea, and numerous works that set new world auction records. He was instrumental in establishing Freeman’s departmental fine sales and has spearheaded the company’s mission of showcasing single-owner collections.

Born in Edinburgh, Scotland, he studied fine art at Gray’s School of Art in Aberdeen. He later graduated with a master's degree from the University of Ulster in Belfast, Northern Ireland. In 1985, he embarked on his career in the auction world in Edinburgh before moving to Glasgow, where he organized the first sale of Scottish contemporary art at the world-renowned Glasgow School of Art. He subsequently moved to a flagship saleroom in London where he specialized in Modern and Impressionist art before transferring to New York as Head of Fine Art in 1997. Since 1998 he has been a familiar face on the top-rated PBS television program Antiques Roadshow.

Adam Veil

VP, Head of Department, American Art and Pennsylvania Impressionists

[email protected]267.414.1221

Adam Veil serves as Vice President and a Fine Art Specialist at Freeman’s.

Veil joined Freeman’s in 2021 following years of experience in both the auction world and the academy. His area of specialization is pre-WWII American Art, although he has lectured and published on topics ranging from Mexican landscape painting and Old Master printmaking to art market economics.

Veil earned a Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts in art history from Penn State University and pursued doctoral studies at Indiana University Bloomington. Prior to joining Freeman’s, Veil was Head of Fine Art at a Washington, D.C.-area auction house, and Executive Director of the Santa Fe Art Auction, where he oversaw market-setting auctions of classical and contemporary Western, Southwestern, and California art. He has also held positions in provenance research, art fair operations, and as editor and producer of The Conversation, a popular Los Angeles–based contemporary art podcast. Concurrent with his role at Freeman’s, Veil is a professor at Mansfield University of Pennsylvania, where he teaches courses in Renaissance, Modern, and American art history.

Garden Party: The Collection of Renny Reynolds

[Gardening] Jekyll, Gertrude. Group of 10 Works, One Signed

Garden Party: The Collection of Renny Reynolds

[Gardening] Jekyll, Gertrude. Group of 10 Works, One Signed

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