A very RARE and beautiful book by Mrs Taylor Basil on "Japanese Gardens", true FIRST 1912 edition!! Deep red cloth with gilt lettering/banding/decoration on spine and front board, top edge gilt. 28 tissue-covered colour plates (including frontispiece) by Walter Tyndale, mounted on beige stock with borders and captions (collated). Contents: Preface; On Japanese Gardens in General; Japanese Gardening History; Gardening Principles; Garden Stones; Garden Accessories (Lanterns and Pagodas); Garden Fences and Hedges; Garden Architecture (Gates, Summer-Houses, and Bridges); Wells, Water-Basins, etc.; Landscape Gardens; Green Gardens; Water Gardens and Dried-up Water Scenery; Miniature Gardens; Some Particular Gardens; Flower Arrangement; Garden Folk-Lore and Legends. Book in good to very good condition. Inside light foxing, complete. Externally spine lightly sunned, some shelfwear, light wear around edges and corners. Ex library copy with only signs: numbers on spine, stamps on title page and on rear free endpapers- see photos. Rarity.