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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
Stock ID: 22324More details Price: £140.00
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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
Stock ID: 22017More details Price: £650.00
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Call of the Land
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.
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Garden Ornament (1918)
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.
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Gravetye Manor or twenty years work round an old manor house
Being an abstract from the Tree and Garden Book of Gravetye Manor Sussex kept by the owner Williams Robinson, well-known gardening author.
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.
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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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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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Masters of the Grotto: Joseph & Josiah Lane
Tisbury The Compton Press Ltd 1976
31pp illustrated essay on the masterful grotto builders, Joseph and Josiah Lane. Limited to 500 copies this numbers 179. Green hand marbled paper with paper paste down title label on upper wrapper. Uncommon.
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Meet the Members:
A Record of the Timber Corps of the Women's Land Army
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.'
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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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Photograph Album of Tresco, Isles of Scilly
Stock ID: 8127More details Price: £680.00
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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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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.
Stock ID: 22327More details Price: £280.00
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The Red Books of Humphry Repton
London Basilisk Press 1976
no 305 0f 515. Folio and oblong 8vo. 4 vols. Limited numbered edition of 515 sets, quarter red morocco gilt over marbled boards, in cloth box, a very good set. A sumptuous facsimile edition, the first published edition thus, of the surviving Red Books; Anthony House, Cornwall; Attingham Park, Shropshire and Sheringham Hall, Norfolk, with an explanatory volume by Edward Mallins containing recent photographs by Eric de Mare. Repton's drawings are meticulously reproduced in collotype and printed on wove paper as close as possible to the original Whatman stock.
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The Wild Rabbit
in a new aspect, or Rabbit-Warrens that Pay. A record of recent experiments conduced on the estate of the Rt. Hon. The Earl of Wharncliffe at Wortley Hall
Edinburgh & London William Blackwood 1893
136pp with some text ills as line drawings, 24pp catalogue of books on rural affairs. Green gilt lettered cloth with rabbit in gilt on upper board. Very good. On how to set up a warren for commercial ends, the book represents a revival in estate management of breeding rabbits for commercial purposes. Fascinating period item for those interested in the history of estate management and landscape design of large parkland landscapes as well as those closely interested in the rabbit.
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Untitled Promotional Booklet
Taplow, Bucks Published by the firm nd 1951
2pp introduction including long quote from George Sitwell's On Making Gardens + unpaginated section illustrating 74 projects from garden layouts to individual greenhouses. Each project located. 4to. Stapled wrappers with sepia full page landscape illustration on upper wrapper with Humphry Repton quotation.
Stock ID: 22546More details Price: £35.00
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