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An Encyclopaedia of Plants: Comprising the Description, Specific Character, Culture, History, Application in the Arts, and Every Other Desirable Particular Respecting All the Plants Indigeous, Cultivated In, Or Introduced to Britain
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Arboretum et Fruticetum Britannicum; or, The Trees and Shrubs of Britain, Native and Foreign, Hardy and Half-Hardy, Pictorially and Botanically Delineated, and Scientifically and Popularly Described; with Their Propagation, Culture, Management and Uses in
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Capability Brown
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.
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Collection of fourteen trade cards advertising lawn mowers
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English Gardens
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.
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English Landscaping and Literature 1660-1840
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.
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Flower Decoration in the House
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.
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George Repton s Pavilion Notebook: A Catalogue Raisonné.
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.
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History and Description of the public parks Gardens and recreation Grounds
Birmingham Published under the direction of the City Parks Committee 1916
(v) 80, frontispiece and 32 monochrome photographs, full details of parks with some history , of foundation and acquisition, details of recreation facilities, uncommon item. 8vo Green cloth, gilt titles, upper board scuffed and with scattered stains.
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Jardins Modernes à l'Exposition Internationale de 1937
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.
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Les Jardins Poëme
Paris Chez Levrault, Freres, Libraires 1801
New expanded edition. xxxi + 166pp. Illustrated frontispiece. Tree calf binding with black gilt lettered spine label. A little rubbed at corner else a good copy. Culturally important poem by this protégé of Marie-Antoinette in which the author extols the virtue of nature as the inspiration for the garden and landscape. First published in 1782. Lovely copy of a much translated poem.
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Modern 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.
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Old West Surrey: some notes and memories
London Longmans Green and Co 1904
First edition xx + 320pp. With 330 illustrations from photographs by the author. 8vo. Green gilt decorated cloth. Ends of spine a little worn. Ex libris Colin Reader with his bookplate on front end paper. Good copy. Loosely inserted Review of the book which appeared in "The Reliquary July 1904", loosely inserted. Jekyll's reminiscences of the working class older people of south-west Surrey, where she spent her formative years.
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On the Making of Gardens
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.
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Salices or an Essay Towards a General History of Sallows, Willows, & Osiers, their Uses and Best Methods of Propagating and Cultivating them.
Stock ID: 22015More details Price: £400.00
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Stowe Gardens in Buckinghamshire:
laid out by Mr Bridgeman, delineated in a large plan, and fifteen perspective views. Drawn on the spot by Mons. Rigaud, now reprinted. To which is added an account of the original publication and descriptive notes to each view by George B. Clarke.
London B W Publications Ltd 1987
Large folio (620x450mm). 16 engraved plates after Rigaud, of which 4 are double page, original calf backed spine, gilt lettered. Marbled slip case. Slip case split along one edge and rather worn but the book itself is very good indeed. Limited to 450 copies. This is numbered F. This is the facsimile of the wonderful illustrations of Stowe by Rigaud to which is added descriptive notes by George Clark, a key authority on the Stowe landscape. Bookplate of Colin Amery.
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The Art of Floating Land As is Practised in the County of Gloucester, Shewn to be Preferable to any other Method in use in this Country; With a Particular Examination of what Mr. Boswell, Mr. Davis, Mr. Marshall, and Others Have Written on the Subject. Minute and Plain Direction are Afterwards Given, for the Formation of a Floated Meadow, with Three Descriptive Plates.
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The Green Frog Service
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The Idea of the Garden in the Renaissance
New Brunswick, Rutgers University Press, 1978 [1935]
xiii, 278 p., [10] leaves of plates: 8vo. Cloth, Very good with slightly worn dust wrapper. From the collection of Colin Amery. No bookplate. Although this book covers the design of gardens it is a scholarly analysis of the ways in which space was experienced in the Middle Ages and the renaissance and its potential as an environment in which thought about culture, religion and social interaction and politics could be expanded.
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The Picturesque: studies in a point of view
London G. P. Putnam 1927
308pp illus with b/w plates. Blue cloth. Edges a little worn and spine very slightly faded else good copy of this hard to find text on The Picturesque. This book was pioneering in the history of taste and which dragged, from relative, obscurity figures like Richard Payne Knight, "a Regency prophet of modernism," together with his contemporaries, and explored the links between painting and landscape design.
Stock ID: 20908More details Price: £135.00