Landscape Books

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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London: The Landscape Institute, 1994. Well illustrated with numerous colour and black-and-white photos, horizontal format 8vo, pp 80, softcover, laminated wrappers, two handwritten telephone number amendments on two pages but otherwise a good clean copy of this suprisingly uncommon guide. . (more information)

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New York: Ink , 1994. Well illustrated, large quarto, pp 272, a very good copy in dustwrapper. NEW. (Vaux was co-designer of Central Park and Prospect Park, New York). . First Edition. (more information)

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Paris, 1993. Well illustrated, hardback, quarto, pp 223, a very good copy in dustwrapper as new. (Originally published at £35.00). . (more information)

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Washington, 2005. Well illustrated, large 8vo pp (4), 433, a very good copy in dustwrapper. [Policy and Politeness at Castle Howard; Friendship & Imagination in French Baroque Gardens; Saxon Baroque Gardens; Of Plants and Gardeners, Prints and Books: Reception and Exchange in Northern European Garden Culture 1648-1725; Gardens of Knowlege and the Republique des Gens de Sciences; Pastoral Landscape and Social Politics in Baroque Rome; Islands of Delight - Shifting Perceptions of the Borromean Islands etc] . (more information)

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New Haven: Yale, 1999. Well illustrated, quarto, pp 317, dustwrapper, very good copy. (Highly acclaimed - the first major work on Repton for many decades). . (more information)

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London: G. Bell and Sons, Ltd., 1962. 18 black-and-white plates and 15 line illustrations by the author, large 8vo, pp (xxii), 108, green cloth with gilt decoration on upper cover (a tree) and gilt titles on spine, very slight signs or fading along edges, slight browning to both endpapers, scattered foxing to top and fore-edges, but otherwise very clean and bright internally, in slightly worn dustwrapper with some minor loss at base of spine and lower front corner and some closed tears along the bottom edge. [Post & packing WITHIN THE U.K. will be £3.85). . Illus. by Edwards, Paul. (more information)

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London: Laurence King Publishing, 2003. Well illustrated, quarto, pp 192, a very good copy in d.w. [An exciting international view.] . (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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University Press of Liverpool. Reprints of 5 articles, originally published in The Town Planning Review, Vol XVII nums 3 & 4, Vol XVIII nums 1,2 & 3. Well illustrated, large 8vo, pp [22],[27],[19],[19],[15], printed wrappers, a litle dull, marked and rubbed, fore-edge slightly foxed, very slightly worn internally. Signed by author on upper cover. SCARCE. . (more information)

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Baltimore: The John Hopkins University Press, 1983. A few illustrations, 8vo, pp xvii, 555, paperback, a fine copy. (In this definitive biography of the "father of landscape architecture," the author captures the full range of Olmsted's contributions to American thought and institutions as well as to its landscape. This book is more than a biography; it is a reaffirmation of a neglected American hero.] . (more information)

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Baltimore: John Hopkins University, 1999. Illustrated in black-and -white, 8vo, pp (xiv), 290, paperback, a very good copy. [First full-length biography of this horticulturalist, landscape designer and prolific writer on architecture, who more than any other individual, shaped middle-class taste in the USA in the two decadesprior to the Civil War. The author explores the origins of Downing's ideas in English aesthetic theory and his efforts to "adapt" English designs to the different climate and republican social institutions of the United States.] . (more information)

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1996. Well illustrated, 4to, pp vii,273, dustwrapper, very good. (The story of Charles Cameron and a remarkable patronage which, in the space of only thirty years, saw English and Scottish architects, park designers and gardeners working throughout Russia.) . (more information)

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Washington, 2001. Well illustrated, large 8vo, pp (6), 436, a very good copy in dustwrapper. [Examines commemorative sites of different character, including gardens, landscapes, memorials, cemeteries etc.] . (more information)

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Washington: Dumbarton Oaks, 2002. Well illus, large 8vo, pp (4), 300, dustwrapper, a very good copy. [Includes interesting historical essays on William Chambers, the eighteenth century landscape garden, Williamsburg, the past as a theme park, as well as articles on the more modern phenomena.] . (more information)

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