London Jellicoe & Coleridge Chartered Architects

26 + [2] pp illustrated with colour line illustrations, maps and b/w photographs. Spiral bound. Card covers with printed titles. Landscape architect Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe's idea of a sunken road from East Oxford to St Aldate's caused uproar. The scrapped plan changed views on city heritage and led directly to the formation of the Oxford Civic Society. This publication outlines the proposals. The scheme was a reflection of its time and came very close to fruition. The illustrations in the publication include images of a model created to show how Jellicoe planned to create an illusion by landscaping that the road was never there. Fascinating.

London Printed for Francis Clay and Daniel Browne 1728

First edition. 8vo., [10], xxii 274 pp., one folding engraved plate, contemporary sprinkled calf, gilt decorated spine with raised bands. Repaired at head and foot spine. New spine label. In this copy the last two pages 273 and 274 misbound between xx and page I of the book. These are index pages. Henrey 929 Dedicated to Lord Torrington [ of Southill ] and fellow admirals in the Navy advocating tree planting to ensure a good supply of timber for the future. Bookplate of Geo. Irton of Irton Hall, Cumberland.

London, Andreas Papadakis 2003

91pp illustrated throughout with colour photographs and diagrams. 4to, cloth in d/w, vg indeed. In this volume Farrell argues that the great parks of London do not function as their designers intended: they are divided by walls, roads and other obstacles. This is his programme for integrating their green space and architectural heritage into the urban landscape more effectively, improving public access and making them available to all. Powerful illustrations are accompanied by interviews with the architect, Lord St John of Fawsley, Simon Jenkins and Charles Jencks.

London George Allen & Unwin 1936

136 + (8)pp. Signature of previous owner Lilian Loseby on front end paper. Good with sl. Browned dust wrapper and book block edge slightly foxed. Ist edition. Recollection of working as a land girl and then later experiences of farms and farming in Oxfordshire, Worcestershire, and Cheshire.

US MIT Press 1986

285 pp. Over 400 b/w ills, incl. line drawings, historical maps, diagrams, engravings and photographs. Cloth boards in illustrated dust wrapper, slight scuff marks at edges. Very good. Large 4to. Eloquent, superbly illustrated study of the origins of the modern city, and the social, psychological, and formal transformations influencing architects in the design of public spaces in cities. Focusses on the French 'hotel' as a development from an Italian prototype, and 'sophisticated instrument of urbanism', in its internal and external organisation of buildings and gardens.

London Country Life 1927

Second edition, x, 438pp. Illustrated with photographs. Folio. Original green cloth, backed boards. Both text and illustrations were extensively revised from the first edition. Illustrates all kinds of garden ornaments including wood and iron gates, steps, balustrades, urns, vases, courts, paved ways, seats, loggias, orangeries, dovecotes, parterres, sundials, topiary, pergolas, treillage, canals, ponds, water gardens, bridges, fountains. Superb photographs showing these elements in garden settings. Considered to be the best edition.

B T Batsford Ltd 1983

248pp with 81 b/w and 12 colour illustrations, 4to, cloth, dw. Vg in good dw. Useful overview of the design of landscapes covering key designers and their lesser known counterparts. Useful background on Capability Brown and his contemporary practitioners.

John Murray printed at the Oxford University Press 1911

xii + (1) + 148 +(1)pp and c38 illustrations mainly sepia plates. Folio Green spine with gilt title, contrasting cloth backed boards, Corners slightly bumped. Internally very good. Attractive copy. The definitive record of William Robinson's own house and garden. The manor became the home of this creative, innovative and revolutionary gardener in 1884. Robinson spent his remarkable life as a professional gardener and botanist, but made his fortune through writing about his experiences and ideas on horticulture which enabled him to acquire and develop Gravetye Manor which now is operated as a hotel.

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.

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.

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.

Bristol Bennet & Co {Printers} undated. c1942

76pp + 12pp b/w photographs of women training in forestry practices. Very good with dust wrapper. The book includes reprints of articles from the Land Girls Magazine by V E Shaw and some poems. The Women's Timber Corps was a separate branch of the Women's Land Army and was started in 1942. The workers were known as 'Lumber Jills.'

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.

York IAAS 1995

24pp illus with b/w plates. Stiff card wrappers. Some pencil annotations. Booklet which grew out the work on Alfred Parson's undertaken by Nicole Milette. Useful source for his work and relationship with Robinson and other garden desginers of the day. List of works included.

Swindon English Heritage 2017

373 pages. A wealth of colour illustrations and contemporary photographs. 4to. Very good with dust wrapper. A revisionary approach to the achievements of England's greatest landscape gardener that draws on fresh documentary material, integrating it with a close reading of the landscapes themselves and that looks to answer the questions how did he do it and why does it work. The result is a major reappraisal of a figure with global influence

Taplow, Bucks. Published by the firm 1936

48pp. Illustrated with sepia photographs throughout. Long 4to. Exceptionally good copy. Promotional publication for this firm of Garden Contractors and Horticultural Builders. Decorated flimsy card wrappers. Large photographs of the completed projects undertaken by the firm. Includes Dytchley [Ditchley] where Jellicoe designed a major new terrace and gardens close to the house, Witley Surrey, Rothwick Hants, Swimming pool and pergolas at a property in Hampstead design by Wiperis, Simpson and Guthrie. The Garden at the Kings House, Burhill. Hard landscape treatments in Chelsea and many more projects. Very good resource for the interwar projects of this firm.

London: Printed for J. and F. Rivington in St. Paul's Church-yard, B. Seeley in Buckingham, and T. Hodgkinson at the New Inn at Stowe, 1768

[2], 44 p., vi, [14] leaves of plates , large folding engraved plan as frontispiece. One other large folding plate depicting the front elevation of Stowe and a floor plan. 212x135mm Contemporary calf, expertly rebacked. One folding plan repaired on verso along fold. Very good copy. Views and elevations etched by G.L. Smith after Seeley. Plans of house and garden pavilions drawn by W. Fairchild. Folded plan of grounds etched by John Sebastian Miller.