GARDENING. - William ROBINSON. The Wild Garden, or the Naturalization and Natural Grouping of Hardy Exotic Plants with a Chapter on the Garden of British Wild Flowers. London: John Murray, 1895. Fifth edition, limited, being one of 280 copies, author's copy, 8vo (219 x 138mm.) Illustrations by Alfred Parsons, several marks and pencil annotation by the author. (Spotting to preliminaries and rear leaves, toning.) Original full vellum by Birdsall, gilt lettering to spine, gilt borders and floral corner-pieces to covers (faint scuffing to lower cover). Provenance: William Robinson (Gravetye Manor bookplate to front pastedown); Ernest Markham, head gardener to William Robinson (inscribed to by the author); Peter Herbert, late owner of Gravetye Manor (bookplate to the front-free endpaper). - And a further copy of 'The Wild Garden', signed by the author [to Mary Gilpin, William Robinson's nurse], 1929, 8vo) (2).