Garden History

West Bretton, 2006. Well illus, small 8vo, pp 80, paperback, a very good copy. [A brief, primarily pictorial account, including plates by Rory McEwen, Celia Hegedus, Ann Fraser and Sally Crosthwaite.] . more information

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1999. Well illustrated, large 8vo, pp 176, wrappers, very good. (Originally produced as an exhibition catalogue, but in effect a useful guide to Italian gardens, 36 being described and illustrated, many of them private. Bilingual text). . more information

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Washington, 1989. Illustrated, large 8vo, pp (6), 324, green cloth, good copy. (A series of essays by George B. Tatum, Charles B. Wood III, David Schuyler etc). ("The most important figure in pomology, horticulture, cottage and garden design in America before the Civil War. Almost single-handedly he created the profession we now call landscape architecture.") . more information

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London: Quiller Press, 1995. Illustrated with black & white photos & maps, 8vo, pp 171, paperback, very good copy. [Updated edition of 1994 printing.] (Originally published at £9.99.) . more information

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Hutchinson of London, 1969. Illustrated, small 8vo, decorated cloth, pp xii, 85, a good copy in, as usual, a faded and frayed dustwrapper. SCARCE . . more information

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Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society Ltd, 1985. Large 8vo, pp (129), paperback, covers showing very slight signs of use. (Reprinting of an early 18th century gardening manuscript.]. more information

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London, 1996. NEW. Illustrated, large slim square 8vo, pp 36, paperback, a very good copy.[Postage within the UK will be no more than £2.85]. more information

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London: Frances Lincoln, 2003. Very well illustrated, quarto, pp 240, a fine unused copy in a fine dustwrapper. . more information

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London: Weidemfield & Nicolson, 1994. Well illustrated, large 8vo, pp 136, a good copy of the paperback edition.. more information

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New York: Rizzoli, 1991. Well illustrated with photographs (mostly in colour) by Liberto Perugi, square octavo, pp 192, paperback. Includes gardens in Piedmont, Lombardy, Veneto, Tuscany, Marche, Latium and Campania. . more information

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New Haven: Yale, 2005. Well illustrated, large 8vo, pp viii, 232, a very good copy in dustwrapper. [A fine account of London's early Tudor gardens, not least those of Thomas More at Chelsea, and Cardinal Wolsey's York Place in Westminster and Hampton Court. . more information

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Washington: Dumbarton Oaks, 2002. Illustrated, large 8vo, pp vi, 384, a very good copy in dustwrapper. [The Culture of Horticulture; Paxton's Water Lily; Women, Gardens & the English Middle Class in the Early Nineteenth Century;Merchant gardeners of Bristol in the Eighteenth century; Garden Architecture at Vauxhall; Rise and Fall of Gardens in the Republic of Genoa, 1528-1797; Taste, Class & Floriculture in Seventeenth Century France; La Pensee Boureoisie in the Biedermeier garden etc].. more information

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London: J. & A. Churchill, 1914. Many coloured and half-tone photographic plates, large thick quarto, pp xvi,500, scattered foxing, top edge gilt, original brown lightly decorated buckram, dull and slightly worn, front hinge cracking, (a simple recasing would put it right), free front endpaper creased, a duplicate from the University Library, Liverpool, with their bookplate on verso of the front free endpaper, and their tiny blindstamp on the title page. VERY SCARCE. [ A record of the first show to be held on the Chelsea site. Although owing its inception to the Royal Horticultural Society, it was actually organized by a small private company. The work was published at Cory's expense). . more information

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Glendaruel: Argyll Publishing, 1999. NEW COPY. (Postage within the UK will be no more than £1.75. Illustrated, small slim 8vo, pp 88, wrappers, very good copy. (An excellent history of the unique Victorian glasshouse at Glasgow Botanic garden, and its creator.) . more information

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Amsterdam: Architectura & Natura Press, 1997. Illustrated, 8vo, pp 175, a bright copy in a dustwrapper with the slightest of dents on the upper edge. [Various essays on Neercanne by de Jong, Frits van Voorden, Adriaan van der Staay and Fridy Duterloo are followed by Mark Laird on "The unresolved dilemma in Planting Conservation", Lablaude on the Park of Versailles, Woudstra on the Privy garden at Hampton CourtGeza Hajos on "Terraced Gardens in Central Europe", Kjell Lundquist on restoration in Sweden, and Nilan Cooray on the restoration of the gardens of Sigiriya in Sri Lanka.]. more information

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Dallas.: Taylor & Francis, 1992. Well illustrated, large 8vo, pp x, 182, a good copy in dustwrapper. . more information

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Victoria: Five Mile Press, 1989. Illustrated, quarto, pp 137, dustwrapper, a good copy. (Ownership stamp of the garden historian Anthony Huxley). . more information

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An illustrated guide book, (c.1990 ?), well illustrated, pp 16, wrappers, TOGETHER WITH a copy of FRANK GIBSON' s "Tresco - Paradise Island", well illustrated, 12mo, pp 32, wrappers, TOGETHER WITH "Souvenir Map and Guide", one large folding sheet. All in bright condition.. more information

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London: Dent, 1928. VOLUME 2 ONLY. Illustrated, quarto, pp xvi, 486, t.e.g., lower corner of upper cover slightly stained, otherwise a good copy in the original decorated blue cloth, in a rather poor dustwrapper.. more information

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London: Hutchinson, 1960. Illustrated, thick 8vo, pp 483, slightly browned, cl dull and a little bumped, spine very dull and a little rubbed and spotted, the first 35 pages slightly bruised on the fore-edge, a little lining in the margins. [A detailed garden history.] . more information

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London: Country Life, 1967. Illustrated, large 8vo, pp 199, very neat name on the front endpaper, which is also very slightly browned, otherwise a good copy in a dustwrapper which is not price-clipped. [A classic history of trees in Britain - from the Celts to medievalism, the landscape movement, the rise of the picturesque, Victorian conifers etc.]. more information

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Spalding: Woodland and Garden Publishing Company, 2003. NEW. Very well illustrated, horizontal 8vo, pp 160, an excellent copy in dustwrapper. [An excellent introduction to Cotehele, Lanhydrock, Caerhays, Trewithen, Heligan, Antony, Chyverton, Glendurgan, Trengwainton, Trelissick, Trebah and Tresco Abbey.] . more information

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Richmond, Surrey: Kew, 1975. Illustrated with monochrome photos, line drawings by Joanna Lowe, 8vo, pp. 48, illustrated wrappers, (guide book format) stapled, heavy crease to back cover. ( 1975 marked the 10th anniversary of the acquisition of Wakehurst Place as a satellite garden to the Royal Botanic Garden, Kew.) . Illus. by Lowe, Joanna. more information

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London: Groombridge, 1857. Small 8vo, 6 colour plates, extra colour title page, many text engravings, pp xvi,508, decorated cloth gilt, a little dull and rubbed, large corner snipped from front end paper. Bookplate of Jim Russell (designed by Felix Kelly). . Second Edition.. more information

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Dumbarton Oaks, 1990. Illustrated, quarto, pp (4), 214, a good copy in dustwrapper. [Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium on the History of landscape Architecture, XII. Includes Haley on "William III as Builder of Het Loo", Erik de Jong on Tthe Function and Meaning of Dutch Garden Art, 1650 - 1702", Wilhelm Diedenhofen on "The Gardens of Johan Maurits van Nassau-Siegen at Cleves", Willemien de Vries on Constantin Huygens Hofwijck, Vanessa Bezemer-Sellers on "The Bentinck Garden at Sorgvliet", Florence Hopper on "Daniel Marot : a French Garden Designer in Holland", Carla Oldenburger-Ebbers " Notes on Plants Used in Dutch Gardens in the Second Half of the Seventeenth Century" , and Hunt's "Dutch Garden in the English Imagination".] . more information

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London: Thames & Hudson, 2000. Well illustrated throughout with black and white photos and illustrations, square format small 4to, pp (xiv) 273, black cloth with gilt lettering on spine, Thames & Hudson twin dolphins motif imprint on front cover, in good dustwrapper, originally published at £32.00. . more information

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London and Amsterdam: Journal of Garden History, 1988. Well illustrated, large horizontal 8vo, pp vi, 341, hardback, dustwrapper, good copy. (Bilingual English/Dutch text). . more information

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Dumbarton Oaks, 1993. Illustrated, quarto, pp (4), 165, a good copy in dustwrapper. [Includes Hunt's "Discovering the Vernacular garden", John Jackson's "Past and Present of the Vernacular garden", Michel Conan on "The Hortillonages", Todd Longstaffe-Gowan on "Private Urban Gardening in England, 1700-1830", Richard Westmacott on "The Gardens of African-Americans in the Rural South", Pierce Lewis on "Sunset and Southern Living", and Bernard Lassus on "The Garden Landscape : A Popular Aesthetic".] . more information

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London: Batsford, 1990. Well illustrated, large 8vo, pp 240, paperback, neat signature on half-title, covers very slightly worn and creased, slight crease to upper corner of the first few pages.. more information

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Woodbridge: Antique Collectors' Club, 1994. Very well illustrated in colour and black-and-white including a large number of garden plans, 4to, pp 200, green cloth with gilt titles on upper cover and spine, lower corners slightly bumped, in dustwrapper, internally very good. A good copy in spite of the bumped corners. (This is a reprint of the First edition [1989]). (Originally published at £25). . more information

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Woodbridge: Garden Art Press. 3 Volumes - 1993, 1995 & 1996. Very well illustrated in colour and black-and-white, 4to, pp 226, 269 & 248, green cloth with gilt titles on upper cover and spine, in dustwrapper, internally clean. Various degrees of damage are as follows: Volume 1: heavy bumping to the fore-edges of the first 100 pages; Volume 2: the slightly worn dustwrapper has a 1-inch slash on the upper cover and has slightly marked (but not cut) the cloth beneath; Volume 3: the slightly worn dustwrapper has a double diagonal slash on the upper cover from the top right-hand corner to the bottom left-hand corner and has slightly marked (but not cut) the cloth beneath, "REJ 67" written in red ink on the verso of the rear free endpaper. (The studies in each book are as follows: Volume 1: Soundings, An Italian Study & Baroque Gardens of Austria. Volume 2: Gardens and Design & Gardens of Europe. Volume 3 : Studies in Landscape Design. [Miscellaneous lectures covering 70 years].) [These 3 books weigh nearly 4 kilos without any packing; PLEASE CHECK FOR REVISED SHIPPING CHARGE].. more information

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Brighton, 2005. NEW. Very well illustrated, large quarto, pp 192, a very good copy in dustwrapper. An excellent account of the Regency gardens at the Royal Pavilion, Brighton, their history and their planting schemes today.. more information

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London: Peerage Books, 1985. Well illustrated, quarto, pp 288, hardback, a good copy in dustwrapper. (N.B. PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS BOOK WAS PUBLISHED TWICE, WITH DIFFERENT TITLES, AS ABOVE) . more information

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Paris: Editions Scala, 2005. NEW. Well illustrated, large 8vo, pp 231, a very good paperback copy in stiff wrappers. [A splendid history of these important gardens] . more information

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Editions Sudouest, 1999. Well illustrated, large slim 8vo, pp 32, paperback, a good copy.. more information

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London: Grower Books, 1980. Postage within the UK should be no more than £2.85. Illustrated, small 8vo, pp 117, paperback, the covers very slightly worn. [With short letter from the publisher.][An autobiography of Lawrence, the creator of the John Innes composts, and his research establishments at Merton and at Brayfordbury.]. more information

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Paris: Flammarion, 1991. Illustrated throughout with lavish colour photos, 4to, pp. 296, green cloth, a very good copy, in slightly worn dustwrapper with closed 3-inch tear on front cover repaired with book-tape on the reverse. (French text). PLEASE NOTE THIS BOOK WILL WEIGH OVER 2 KILOS WHEN PACKED. PLEASE ENQUIRE FOR REVISED SHIPPING CHARGE. . Illus. by Baker, Christopher (photographer). more information

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London: Thames & Hudson, 2002. Very well illustrated, 8vo, pp 400, paperback, stiff covers, a very good copy. [ A photographic essay, by the renowned French photographer Jean-Baptiste Leroux, of the gardens over the year in 220 col photos.] . more information

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Edinburgh: Spurbooks, 1981. Illustrated, large 8vo, pp 280, a good copy in a slightly worn dustwrapper. . more information

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Mechanicsburg: Stackpole Books, 2005. NEW. Small 8vo, pp xii, 260, a very good copy in dustwrapper. [A brief introduction on Monticello is followed by detailed accounts of the plants grown by Jefferson] POSTAGE WITHIN THE UK WILL BE NO MORE THAN £2.95. . more information

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Yale, 2001. Well illustrated, quarto, pp xiv, 289, a good copy in dustwrapper.. more information

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London: London Historic Parks and Gardens Trust. Illustrated, pp 56; 54 in coloured card covers, a little used, slight suggestion of damp wrinkling, otherwise condition good. (Articles include: the public gardens of Bloomsbury, the Helmingham Plan, Joshu Brookes Vivarium etc). . more information

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London: Thames & Hudson, 1991. ["History, evolution, design, practice, plants and planting, furniture and ornament".] Very well illustrated, small folio, pp 336, dustwrapper, good copy. A very attractive work. (N.B. - weighs over 2 kilos) . more information

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Washington, 1987. Illustrated, 4to, pp (4), 260, a very good copy. [Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium- includes Jashemski's Recently Excavated Gardens at Boscoreale & Oplontis; Ricotti's Importance of Water in Roman Garden Triclinia; Purcell's Town in Country and Country in Town; Pailler's Montmaurin; & Widrig's Land Use at the Via Gabina Villas.] . more information

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Washington: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 1986. Illustrated, large octavo, pp (vi), 278, very good. (Volume IX in the Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium on the History of Landscape Architecture, with 13 essays on various aspects of the medieval garden, including Howard Colvin on Royal Gardens in Medieval England, Paul Meyvaert on the Medieval Monastic Garden, Jerry Stannard on the Alimentary and Medicinal Usese of Plants, Carmelia Opsomer-Halleux on the Medieval Garden and Its Role in Medicine, and Naomi Miller on Paradise Regained: Medieval Garden Fountains.). First Edition. more information

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Washington, 1982. Illustrated, large 8vo, pp (4), 142, a very good copy.[Essays on the formative years, the campus designs, Dartington Hall etc]. more information

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New York: Harper & Row, 1990. Illustrated, 8vo, pp 256, a bright copy in dustwrapper. (A well-researched work, with chapters on "Pleasures of the Table", "The Dessert Triumphant" etc.). more information

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Boston: David R. Godine, 2003. (1902). Facsimile reprint with a new introduction by Judith Tankard, illustrated, pp xxx, 294, paperback, a very good copy. Postage within the UK should be no more than £3.50. . more information

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Washington: Dumbarton Oaks, 1995. Illustrated, quarto, pp vi, 322, a very good copy in dustwrapper. NEW. [Includes Marc Treib's "Aspects of Regionality and the Modernist Garden in California"; Dianne Harris " Making Gardens in the Athens of the West : Bernard Maybeck and the San Francisco Bay Region Tradition in landscape and Garden Design"; Lance Necar's "Fast-Tracking Culture and Landscape : Horace William Shaler Cleveland and the Garden in the Midwest"; Robert Grese's "Prairie Gardens of O.C. Simonds and Jens Jensen"; C. Allen Brown's "Eighteenth Century Virginia Plantation Gardens : Translating an Ancient Idyll"; Suzanne Turner's " Roots of a Regioal Garden Tradition : the Drawings of the New Orleans Notarial Archives"; James Ackerman's " On Public Landscape design Before the Civil War, 1830 - 1869"; Charles Beveridge's " Regionalism in Frederick Law Olmsted's Social Thought and Landscape Design Practice"; Laurie Olin's "Regionalism and the Practice of Hanna/Olin Ltd", together with two essays on the University of Illinois Agricultural Experiment Station Circular 184 - "The Prairie Spirit in Landscape Gardening".] . more information

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Washington: Dumbarton Oaks, 1998. Illustrated, 4to, pp viii, 310, dustwrapper, very goodcopy. NEW. [Evelyn's unpublished manuscript of nearly a thousand pages remains a treasure trove for scholars of the period. The essays include John Ingrams on 'provenance, condition, transcription', Michael Hunter on Evelyn in the 1650's, Michael Leslie on the "Elysium" and the reformation of agriculture, Alice Friedman on Evelyn and English architecture, Mark Laird on 'Parterre, Grove and Flower Garden: European Horticulture and Planting Designs', John Harvey on Evelyn's plants, and John Dixon Hunt on Evelyn's Idea of the Garden.] . more information

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