Dropmore Press Edition 1949

Limited edition no 599 decorations by John Piper. Very good copy with very good dust wrapper although this is slightly faded on the spine. Introduction by Osbert Sitwell. Best illustrated edition. Hard to find in this condition. Originally published by J. Murray in 1909 when Sitwell described the design of Italian gardens, this edition illustrated with three single-page and three double-page colour illustrations by John Piper.

Country Life Ltd (1950) 1957

Revised edition. 228pp illustrated with b/w plates and line ills showing Brown's style. 4to. Fair copy. D/w torn on top reverse and some foxing on the cloth boards. assessment of Brown's life and work including a list of properties where Brown was involved with design. Previous ownersl bookplate on front pastedown.

London Country Life

lxiv, 375pp illustrated with 521 photogravure plates. Folio. Original publisher's cloth backed green buckram boards, lettered gilt on spine and on front cover .. All edges gilt. Marbled end papers. Spine slightly faded, slight rubbing at head and base of spine else very good. Discusses, fifty two important gardens including Abbotswood, Warley Place, Munstead Wood, Gravetye, Bodnant, Chequers, Hestercombe, Iford, Powis and many more.

Oxford University Press 1966

186pp illus with 20 b/w plates. Vg in very good dust wrapper. On the influences of literature and art on the formation of the English landscape garden and its design. Skilful analysis of the interplay of philosophy, literature and art in relation to landscape gardening.

London Country Life 1907

xi +98pp + c10pp catalogue of Country Life Publications. Illustrated with b/w photogravure plates showing flower and fruit arrangements. 8vo. Blue cloth, discoloured on edge of front board, with gilt titles. Loosely inserted invoice form 1958 identifying the bookseller as H V Day of Dorcheser with his ticket on front paste down and ex libri of David erald Francis Hinge.

HMSO Forestry Commission (1966) 2nd impression 1967

Booklet no 18. 31pp illus with b/w plates. 4to. Wrappers with colour air view of forestry in the Dunkeld area. Drawings by John Brookes. Call for intergrating and harmonising tree planting into upland landscapes with design ideas to achieve this.

Taplow, Buckinghamshire Wm Wood & Son Ltd. nd c1928

12pp, illustrated with b/w plates. Long 4to. Lettered wrappers. Inside wrapper has a list of recent projects under the title "Achievements." Wm. Wood and Son was a well known firm of garden designers and contractors by Royal Appointment. Images in this catalogue focuses on small garden houses, some with thatched roofs, greenhouses with a centrefold showing some of their layouts with ponds, rockeries, pergolas etc. Lovely small item.

London Hutchinson 1960

482, [2]; 32 plates showing 48 mostly photographic illustrations, several other illustrations in the text. 8vo. Very good with very good dust wrapper designed by William McLaren. Exceptionally nice copy with lovely decorated dust wrapper. Ownership plate on front paste down. Decorated end papers which are plans of gardens.

London The Architectural Press 1957

188 pp with over 100 b&w photographs and drawings. 4to. Very good with slightly worn dust wrapper with closed tear on verso of dust wrapper. Translated from the German Marcus G. Sims. Ex libri David, Gerald Francis Hinge. With plans and photos of gardens and tea-house/gardens in several locations in Japan: houses, palaces, parks, temples, etc. Useful source for design and character of the Japanese gardens.

Aldershot, Scolar Press, 1993

Oblong small quarto, 290 x 210 mm. 186 pages, 179 illustrations. Very good with slightly worn dust wrapper. George Repton (1786-1858) served as assistant to John Nash. Forth son of Humphry Repton. As well as working with Nash. He also assisted his father. For instance, he assisted his father and brother in the plans for the Royal Pavilion at Brighton.

Witton le Wear, Durham Michaelmus Books 1984

158pp illustrated in b/w. Decorated end paper. 4to. This copy is in mint, unmarked condition bound in black cloth covered boards with bright gilt titling to the spine. Limited edition. This copy is number 4. Compliments slip from Michael Tooley laid in with a couple of other small inserts. Armourial bookplate on front end paper. David Hinge's copy.

London Longmans, Green and Co 1926

Reissue. of the first edition of 1900. xv + 301pp with 53 illustrations from photographs by the author. 8vo. Decorated lettering in gilt on spine andupper board. Head and base of spine a little worn, corners and edges rubbed. Spine a little faded else good. Initially written after the favourable reception of Jekyll's first book, Wood and Garden. From the collection of Colin Amery with his bookplate

Paris Charles Moreau 1937

4pp text and 48 photographic plates which are heliotypes. Loose leaf portfolio with ribbon ties. Portfolio a little worn and dusty but good and the photographs inside are fabulous. Designers given. Introduction by Jacques Gréber,: Works illustrated include projects by Guyon, Despres, Prou, Subes, Tournon, Barsacq, Lardat, Fissore Laprade et BazinDuiliu, Gyorgyi, Jasson, Moser Barot amongst others Focuses on modernist private and public gardens.

London The Architectural Press 1953

144p ills with 291 b/w plates. 4to. Bright copy in slightly worn dust wrapper that has a one inch chip missing form head of spine and slight foxing on front end paper. First edition. Important book on mid 20th century garden design by this key practitioner involved with the Festival Gardens at the South Bank and Battersea which are featured alongside works of Tunnard, Burle Marx, Koch and others. Scarce. Ownership label of David Gerald Francis Hinge on frong paste down.

London Gerald Duckworth & Co. [1909, 1949, May 1951], August 1951

+xix, 78 pp. 16 b/w plates. Small 8vo. Green cloth boards, slightly bumped at spine edges, in dust wrapper with protective sleeve. Front end paper has scattered foxing else good copy. Bookplate of David Gerald Francis Hinge. Reprint of Sitwell's classic text. Introduction by Sir Osbert Sitwell.

London Landscape Design Trust 2004

159pp illustrated with b/w plates, colour plates and line drawings. Signed copy by Paul Shepheard son of the designer and one of the contributors to the book. Very good copy.

Colchester and London Spottiswoode, Ballantyne & Co nd c 1921

9th edition. 110pp illustrated with b/w plates. 8vo. Wrappers with chromolithographic, colour plate of the gardens on the upper wrapper. Good copy. Centre fold shows further images of the nursery gardens, the remaining illustrations in back and white show the plants grown and documentary photographs of the processes of growing, their shops, show exhibits etc. A history of this firm founded in 1806.