The Garden: An English Love Affair

by FEARNLEY-WHITTINGSTALL, Jane

First Edition

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Book Description

London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2002. Publishers original green boards with silver lettering to spine, minor shelf wear to top of spine. Dustwrapper: unclipped, now protected in Brodart. Pictorial colour endpapers, no inscriptions. 360pp including index, profusely illustrated with magnificent colour plates throughout text. Pages are clean and bright in firm binding. The authors analysis of the very English art of garden making ells an intriguing story, revealed through poetry, fiction, diaries and memoirs and in the writings of satirists as well as philosophers. It is illustrated with illuminated manuscripts, embroideries, paintings, drawings and photographs. She traces the events, which shaped the style of gardens, showing how each period was influenced by a love or hate relationship with nature, alternatively taming or manipulating it, romanticizing and celebrating it. She also looks at the way changing garden styles have reflected economic, social and cultural life, in cottages or mansion, country or town, and how the same influences affected architecture, clothes and manners as well as gardens.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

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