London B T Batsford 1900

xviii, 224pp, 198 illustrations, including a double-page frontis, 2 indexes, Original green cloth, gilt decorations on spine in the arts and crafts style. Very sl. rubbed on the corners and edges and green cloth a little dull and inner front hing a little cracked else a very good copy of this beautiful book - the first edition of which reveals Mawson's principles in the early part of his career. The book developed through a further four editions and can be used to reveal the development of Mawson's ideas over time. Includes perspectives of gardens by C E Mallows.

London The Richards Press Limited 1927

xvi + 368pp. Illustrated with 28 pages of b/w plates and line illustrations. Decorated end papers. Blue gilt decorated cloth. Small quarto. Inner hinges cracked. Slightly rubbed on spine else a very good copy. Excellent account of the life and work of Mawson particularly focusing on his private landscape projects. Scarce. From the office of Prentice Mawson without signatures.

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 he Hambledon Press 1984

404 pp illustrated with black and white photographs. Boards, Very good dust wrapper. Beresford was highly regarded for his archaeological work, incluidng at Wharram Percy in North Yorkshire. This is a fine set of essays on agrarian history, medieval settlement and urban history.

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.

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

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.

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.

Christopher Helm 1988

224pp, 130 b/w ills and 30 colour photographs, Sm 4to. Vg in dw. Produced in association with the tercentenary of the glorious revoluetion. A celebration of the gardens in Britain and Holland at the time. Hard to find.

University of Pennsylvania Press 1999

448pp with 66 colour and 228 b/w illustrations. Fine, new copy. This is a study of the colourful flowers and blossoming shrubs which adorned the Georgian landscape garden. It focuses on the historical reconstruction of the formal and horticultural characteristics of shrubberies and flowerbeds, but also discusses the transmission of planting lore, and interaction between landscape designer, client, nurseryman, land agent, and gardener in modifying and transforming the geometric layouts of previous generations. Laird offers readers a wealth of visual and literary materials—from contemporary paintings, engravings, poetry, essays, and letters to more prosaic household accounts and nursery bills—to revolutionize our understanding of the English landscape garden as a powerful cultural expression.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.