The Edwardian Lady: The Story of Edith Holden

First edition, first impression.  208pp, richly illustrated throughout.  Quarter bound in dark green cloth cover green cloth boards with gilt lettering and decoration.  Marbled endpapers.  8vo.  Volume is neat, clean, bright and tight throughout. In its original glossy dust wrapper, price clipped, a little bumped on extreme edges.

Edith Holden (1871-1920) was an artist, writer and art teacher, strongly influenced by the Arts and Crafts movement.  She specialised in painting animals and plants, and collected flowers from the riverbanks at Kew Gardens. She is perhaps best remembered now as the author of The Country Diary of an Edwardian Lady although this was not published until 1977, almost 60 years after her death by drowning in the River Thames in 1920.