Garden design

Hampstead Garden Suburb Residents' Association, 1982. 1st edition. Paper covers. V.g. /No Jacket. A souvenir programme for the 75th anniversary celebrations. Cover sl. rubbed and damp-spotted else v.g. more information

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Beijing Arts and Photography Publishing House, 1986. 2nd printing. Paper covers with wrap-around flaps. Fine /No Jacket. A concise guide to the principal public gardens of Beijing. more information

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Redcliffe Press, 1993. 1st edition. Paper covers. Fine/No Jacket. Covers 50 gardens in Avon, Glos., Somerset and Wiltshire. 96 pp., 8 pages of colour illustrations. more information

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Ward, Lock & Co., London, 1957. 1st edition. Hard covers, no dust jacket. V.g/No Jacket. A fairly technical account that focusses on hard landscaping rather than horticulture. Includes a number of sketch designs. 192 pp. more information

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Mitchell Beazley, 2007. 1st edition. Hard covers, dust jacket. As new /As new. As new. 192 pp. more information

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Methuen, London, 1934. 1st edition. Hard covers, no dust jacket. V.g. /No Jacket. more information

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W.H. Freeman & Company, 1990. 2nd edition. Hard covers, dust jacket. Fine /Fine. Scarcely used. vii, 401 pp. more information

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Phoenix Illlustrated, 1997. New edition, published in 1988 by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. Paper covers. As new /No Jacket. Scarcely used. 160 pp. more information

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Artus, London, 1977. 1st edition. Hard covers, dust jacket. V.g. /Fair. Pages sl. tanned at edges, wrapper frayed. 185 pp. more information

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Royal Horticultural Society, 1993. Hard covers, dust jacket. Good /V.g. Little used internally. T.p. removed, traces of labels from front pastedown; ex-lib? 256 pp. more information

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Cassel Illustrated, 2002. 1st edition. Hard covers, dust jacket. Fine /V.g. Sm. tear on top edge of jacket, residue left by price tag, otherwise near fine. An account of six contrasting gardens, three from Wales and three from England, with details of their history and of their restoration. The photographs, mostly by Rowan Isaac, are superb and illuminate the text, which is both personal and informative. Location map and "Gazeteer" (sic) on last page - Lyveden New Bield and Hidcote (National Trust), Aberglasney, St. Fagans, The Gibberd garden and Clynfyw. 176 pp. more information

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Douglas, William Lake; Frey, Susan R.; Johnson, Norman K.; Littlefield, Susan; Van Valkenburgh, Michael, 1984. Macdonald (Quarto). Hard covers, dust jacket. V.g. /V.g. With an introduction by John Brookes, a leading UK garden designer, this pictorial guide by a clutch of American experts gives a wide range of options for designing gardens at a domestic scale. 224 pp. more information

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Longmans, Green & Co, 1905. 3rd edition. Publisher's blue cloth. Good /No Jacket. Donor's inscription ("Christmas 1905") on blank page opposite half-title; edge-wear to cloth, corners bumped; internally fresh and clean. xii, 131 pp. more information

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Bendikt Taschen, 1992. 1st English edition. Paper covers. V.g. /No Jacket. Scarcely used. 240 pp. more information

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New Holland, 2005. English translation of 2005 Italian edition. Hard covers, dust jacket. New/New. Lavishly photographed study of some of Europe's grandest gardens. Their Italian/Swiss selection includes Villa Lante, Ninfa, Villa Trissino Marzotto, Villa San Remigio and The Brissago Islands. The UK provides five: Chatsworth, Levens Hall, Hidcote Manor, Hampton Court and Birr Castle. Intelligently written text. 192 pp. more information

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Laurence King, 1992. 1st edition. Hard covers, dust jacket. As new/As new. Sticker on ffep stating 'published 19/10/92 at £40', book unworn and unused. A very good summary of modern practice in the 1980s with excellent photography and informative plans. 240 pp. more information

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Harmony Books, New York, 1990. 1st American edition, 1st impression. Hard covers, dust jacket. V.g/V.g. V.g./v.g. Attractively illustrated account of forty of the most unusual and interesting private gardens, ranging from northern Queensland to Tasmania and from Perth to the Blue Mountains of New South Wales. Some date from the C19, others are modern, and the State of Victoria provides the largest contingent. Garden designers featured include Jocelyn Brown, Alister Clark, William Guilfoyle, Ellis Stones, Edna Walling and Leslie Wilkinson. Interesting blend of international design concepts with imaginative uses of native flora. 224 pp., location map, profused illustrated in colour and monochrome. more information

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Wiedenfeld & Nicolson, 2000. 1st edition. Hard covers, dust jacket. Fine /Fine. A well photographed account of the development of the Highgrove estate's gardens, which include some fairly quirky elements. 176 pp. more information

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Galley Press, 1979. Reprint of 1975 first edition. Fine /Fine. Fine/fine, top edge dusted. Subtitled 'plants and flowers for containers and patios' this well-illustrated quarto book is aimed at the non-expert horticulturist. There is a section on propagation, and an A-Z of plants (prepared with the assistance of John Negus) on pp. 74-90. The author is a noted garden writer. 96 pp. more information

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Bloomsbury Books, 1969. Reissue of Thomas Nelson edition. Hard covers, dust jacket. V.g/Good. Some edgewear to jacket but internally very good. A well-illustrated guide to the principal botanic gardens of the world, from Padua to Buenos Aires and Japan by way of Kew, Goteborg, Tashkent, Bogor and many others. Inexplicably omitting the Botanic Garden of the Komarov Institute in St. Petersburg, no doubt due to travel difficulties at the time (though the authors managed to get to Minsk), the authors select only seven U.S. gardens one of which, Longwood, is a much more horticulturally inclined arboretum than (say) the Morris Arboretum in the same State. However, this lavishly illustrated coffee-table book provides a great deal of interesting reading on the history and special features of each garden and does include the 'top tier'. Gazetteer of gardens at rear. 288 pp. more information

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Thames and Hudson, 1964. 1st edition. No jacket. Fine /No Jacket. Illustrated with tipped-in colour photographs . Handsomely produced, the text printed on thick grey paper. The text is quite ascerbic at times. 288 pp. more information

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The New H.G.S. Trust and H.G.S. Residents' Association, 1990. 1st edition. Paper covers. V.g. /No Jacket. Little used; near fine. 176 pp. more information

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Country Life, 1918. 1st edition. Blue cloth, gilt title. Good /No jacket. Corners and edges worn and bumped; all edges gilt. Owner's inscription on ffep; internally very good. xii, 460 pp. more information

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Country Life, 1927. 2nd edition. Green cloth, gilt titling on spine. V.g. /No jacket. Corners and front edge bumped, internally a fine copy. x, 438 pp. more information

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Studio Editions, 1995. New edition. Hard covers, dust jacket. As new /As new. A modern, newly illustrated edition of Jekyll's "Some English gardens" of 1904. A short introduction by Sally Festing places the work in context, ponting out that not all the gardens are strictly "English"; the contemporary illustrations by Elgood are, however, very well reproduced in this edition and must rank among the finest depictions of gardens in the early 20th century. viii, 184 pp. more information

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Adam and Charles Black, 1971. 1st edition. Hard covers, dust jacket. V.g. /Good. Ex-library copy with security insert at rear and bookplate on front pastedown; jacket curled and frayed at edges, sl. shelf wear to cloth, internally tidy. Contains numerous examples of the use of water in landscaping drawn from around the world, with monochrome photographs and accompanying text. 137 pp. more information

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Barrie & Jenkins, 1989. Photographs by Clay Perry. Hard covers, dust jacket. V.g/V.g. A pictorial record of a range of English gardens, arranged in broadly chronological order. Luscious photography accompanied by an intelligently written commentary. An appendix lists the featured gardens, which at the time of writing were all open to the public. The author is a designer of historic garden reconstructions who served on the National Trust's gardens advisory panel and also works as a horticultural journalist. more information

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1978. 1st edition. Hard covers, dust jacket. V.g. /V.g. Spine sunned, otherwise near fine. 207 pp. more information

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Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1987. 1st edition; published in association with the National Trust. Hard covers, dust jacket. V.g/V.g. A photographic survey of 28 National Trust gardens selected for their historic interest as exemplars of the English Style. The text, by Arabella Lennox-Boyd, is fairly concise, and plenty of space is devoted to the luscious photography of Clay Perry. The book includes a foreword by Graham Stuart Thomas. more information

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Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1987. 1st edition; published in association with the National Trust. Hard covers, dust jacket. V.g. /V.g. A photographic survey of 28 National Trust gardens selected for their historic interest as exemplars of the English Style. The text, by Arabella Lennox-Boyd, is fairly concise, and plenty of space is devoted to the luscious photography of Clay Perry. The book includes a foreword by Graham Stuart Thomas. Jacket with small tear. 160 pp. more information

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London: George Allen & Sons, 1908. 1st edition. Art Nouveau binding. Good /No jacket. Top edge gilt; fore-edge, rear end-papers and the two adjoining pages spotted, mild foxing elsewhere, plate between pp. 96 nd 97 partly detached, otherwise very good. more information

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Gyllene Snittet, 2007. Facsimile reprint of 1651 Swedish/French/German edition and 1670 English edition. Black cloth binding, no jacket. New /No Jacket. Facsimile reprint of a book originally published in Stockholm in 1651 by Queen Christina's French-born gardener. It contains a trilingual text and 30 full-page plates of garden designs, many of 'broderie' parterres which were then the height of fashion.142 un-numbered pages; 30 full-page plates. The English translation is by Kersten and Roger Tanner. more information

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Heritage House Group, Derby, 2001. Paper covers. Fine /No Jacket. A brochure publicising the very ambitious plans to build a major tourist attraction at Alnwick Castle. 36 pp., illustrated with photographs. more information

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Macdonald Orbis, 1989. 1st UK edition. Hard covers, dust jacket. V.g. /Good. Jacket sunned along spine; internally fine. A photographic guide to the use of grasses in garden design. 126 pp. more information

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Viking, 1987. 1st edition. Hard covers, dust jacket. V.g. /V.g. Price clipped. A county-by-county guide to rarely-opened, privately-run gardens whose owners open them for charity once or twice a year. Despite the compressed format this book packs in a lot of information on the special features of the gardens described, no doubt based on data supplied by the owners. Photographs by Jacqui Hurst. 222 pp. more information

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Shankland Cox and Associates, 16 Bedford Square, 1970. Draft plan, approved for discussion only. Paper covers, comb bound. V.g. /No Jacket. Unpaginated. Folded map, undamaged, at rear. more information

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The Architectural Press, London, 1954. 2nd impression of 1st edition. Hard covers, dust jacket. V.g. /Poor. Jacket torn, pages sl. sunned. 144 pp. more information

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Yale University Press, 2000. Hard covers, dust jacket. Fine /Fine. Nearly new, in fine dust-jacket. Well written and enthusiastic overview of the history of garden design as interpreted and recorded by artists. 338 plates; 288 pp. more information

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Bantam Press, 2003. 1st edition. Hard covers, dust jacket. As new/As new. Roy Strong and his wife Julia T. Oman acquired The Laskett in Herefordshire in 1972 and there created a most unusual garden - a melange of formal and informal elements 'borrowed' from a number of grand designers. The result is fascinating, not least for its insights it provides into the process of forming and planting a garden , which here has been recorded in meticulous detail. 272 pp., numerous colour photographs, plan of garden on end papers. more information

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Conran Octopus, 2000. 1st edition. Hard covers, dust jacket. As new /As new. Scarcely used. 160 pp., with many colour illustrations. more information

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Viking, 1988. Hard covers, dust jacket. V.g/V.g. Rather than just a history of Victorian gardens, this book examines their impact on present-day gardens. From being an activity largely confined to the wealthiest class, gardening became massively popular: "the new style" being promoted by "new markets". David Stuart displays his most polemical passages when dealing with William Robinson and Reginald Blomfield, a "battle of extremes". more information

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Ward Lock, 1948. 5th impression; revised. First published in 1933. Hard covers, no dust jacket. V.g. /No Jacket. Some corner wear, internally near fine. Col. frontispiece; 480 pp. more information

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Breslich & Foss, 2002. Revised edition, first published 1975. Hard covers, dust jacket. Fine/Fine. A souvenir of England's finest gardens, well photographed by Christopher Gallagher, Anne Hyde, Marianne Majerus, Clay Perry, Stephen Robson and Paul Highnam (and a few others). Text bolted together somewhat, but an enjoyable winter read. 216 pp. more information

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Beaver Publishing, 1994. Reprint of Templar edition of 1989. Photographic hard cover, no dust jacket. As new/No Jacket. Authoritative guide to the best English historic gardens (or large-scale gardens, as small plots are scarcely mentioned). Based on the English Heritage classification, this book claims to cover over 100 Grade 1 listed gardens. 160 pp. more information

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Architects' Journal, 1970. Comb-bound reprint of articles from AJ. Comb bound soft cover. Good/No Jacket. An assemblage of information sheets on urban landscape design reprinted from the Architects' Journal, with some signs of wear but well preserved considering the nature of the materials. Variously paginated (as original articles). Includes advertisements. more information

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Michaelmas Books, 1995. 1st edition. Paper covers. As new /As new. Scarcely used. 238 pp. more information

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Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1988. 1st edition. Hard covers, dust jacket. Fine/Fine. A portfolio of photographs by Hugh Palmer with text describing some of the outstanding private gardens of Scotland: to name but a few from Central & Southern Scotland we have Duntreath Castle, Little Sparta, Monteviot House, Manderston House, Tyninghame House, Greywalls and Earlshall Castle. Alice, Duchess of Gloucester provides a foreword. There is a concise bibliography. 160 pp. more information

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Parragon, 1997. Pictorial hard covers. As new /No Jacket. Scarcely used. 63 pp. more information

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Parragon Garden Guides, 1998. Reprint of 1996 edition. Pictorial hard covers. Fine/No Jacket. Pictorial guide to the essentials of laying out a domestic garden. 80 pp. more information

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Batsford, 1977, 1978, 1979. 7-volume set . Hard covers, dust jackets . V.g/V.g. V.g./v.g., some wrappers clipped, vol. 3 with plastic sleeve, spine of vol. 6 sl. sunned. Plans for several of the sites nicely complement the descriptions as well as giving a snapshot of the state of the gardens. Illustrated with selective plates and numerous text figures. The "Gardens of..." series was edited by John Sales. Date of the 'Scotland' volume uncertain, but its ISBN suggests 1977. more information

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