The Garden as a Fine Art from Antiquity to Modern Times

by COWELL, F.R

First Edition

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Book Description

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1978. Publishers original olive green cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Dustwrapper: clipped, faint sunning to spine, closed tear to top of spine and small loss to bottom of spine, however now protected in Brodart. Pictorial endpapers, no inscriptions. 232pp including index, profusely illustrated with 24 pages in magnificent colour and more than100 b/w illustrations throughout text. Pages clean and bright in firm binding. In this beautifully written and lovingly researched book, the author creates a picture of gardens in the great civilizations of the world, from the ancient Egyptian enclosed gardens of leafy shade and fresh pools to the glories of modern gardens with their infinite variety of plants and design.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Fine/Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

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