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The Art and Craft of Garden Making
by Mawson, Thomas H.; Mawson, E. Prentice
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very good +
- ISBN 10
- 9189069986
- ISBN 13
- 9789189069985
- Seller
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Carrollton, Georgia, United States
2 Copies Available from This Seller
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About This Item
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2021. Hardcover. Very good +. Hardcover. 14 1/2" X 10". xii, 440pp. Bound in green cloth over boards with spine and front cover stamped in gilt. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges. Top-edge gilt. Pages are bright, clean, and unmarked. Binding is sound.
This book is heavy and oversized and will require additional postal charges to ship internationally. Please contact us today for an international shipping quote.
ABOUT THIS BOOK:
An astounding and luxurious facsimile of a rare Victorian gardening guide, bound in cloth with exquisite color illustrations
Since its initial publication in 1900, Thomas H. Mawson's book The Art and Craft of Garden Making has become the go-to guide for garden design, with multiple reprints that continue to withstand the test of time. Its chapters address numerous topics essential to successful landscape design, from "The Choice of a Site and Its Treatment" to "Flower Gardens, Beds, and Borders."
The book's author, Thomas Hayton Mawson (1861-1933), was a British garden designer, landscape architect and town planner. He began his own landscape firm in the 1880s; he combined his botanical knowledge and eye for architectural details into unique plans for parks throughout Europe, many of which have since been restored to their former floral glory. With great attention to detail and diligent research, Mawson's expertise is apparent throughout the book.
This facsimile of the fifth edition of The Art and Craft of Garden Making (1926) preserves both the beauty of the book's original design and the encyclopedic information contained within its pages. Featuring a sumptuous clothbound cover, gold detailing and illustrations, this publication is an art piece in and of itself as much as it is a valuable resource for professional and hobbyist gardeners alike.(Publisher).
This book is heavy and oversized and will require additional postal charges to ship internationally. Please contact us today for an international shipping quote.
ABOUT THIS BOOK:
An astounding and luxurious facsimile of a rare Victorian gardening guide, bound in cloth with exquisite color illustrations
Since its initial publication in 1900, Thomas H. Mawson's book The Art and Craft of Garden Making has become the go-to guide for garden design, with multiple reprints that continue to withstand the test of time. Its chapters address numerous topics essential to successful landscape design, from "The Choice of a Site and Its Treatment" to "Flower Gardens, Beds, and Borders."
The book's author, Thomas Hayton Mawson (1861-1933), was a British garden designer, landscape architect and town planner. He began his own landscape firm in the 1880s; he combined his botanical knowledge and eye for architectural details into unique plans for parks throughout Europe, many of which have since been restored to their former floral glory. With great attention to detail and diligent research, Mawson's expertise is apparent throughout the book.
This facsimile of the fifth edition of The Art and Craft of Garden Making (1926) preserves both the beauty of the book's original design and the encyclopedic information contained within its pages. Featuring a sumptuous clothbound cover, gold detailing and illustrations, this publication is an art piece in and of itself as much as it is a valuable resource for professional and hobbyist gardeners alike.(Publisher).
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Details
- Bookseller
- Underground Books, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 10184
- Title
- The Art and Craft of Garden Making
- Author
- Mawson, Thomas H.; Mawson, E. Prentice
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good +
- Quantity Available
- 2
- ISBN 10
- 9189069986
- ISBN 13
- 9789189069985
- Publisher
- Charles Scribner's Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2021
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About the Seller
Underground Books, ABAA
Biblio member since 2009
Carrollton, Georgia
About Underground Books, ABAA
Underground Books is an online rare and antiquarian bookshop as well as a brick and mortar general bookstore of the same name in downtown Carrollton, Georgia. Sister store Hills & Hamlets Bookshop is located in the nearby planned eco-community of Serenbe.
Co-owners Josh Niesse and Megan Bell met in 2011, just 10 days or so after Josh opened the doors of Underground Books, literally underground, several steps below street level in a 100-year-old basement in our historic downtown. Megan, an English student at the University of West Georgia, walked in, fell down the rabbit hole, and never left! Reader, we married in May of 2014, under the book arch that now resides at the bookshop. We are both proud alumni of the Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar (CABS), and Megan additionally of Rare Book School at the University of Virginia and of the ABAA Women's Initiative Mentorship Program.
We have two open bookshops that carry new, used, bargain, rare, and antiquarian books, as well as our online office, impossible without our incredible team of booksellers, including two fellow CABS graduates, Miranda McMillan and Suzanne Carnes.
Like many booksellers with open brick-and-mortar stores, we are passionate generalists, but our specialties are in decorative publisher's cloth bindings; fairy tales, folklore, and mythology; popular science and natural history; the occult; and fine press books.
Co-owners Josh Niesse and Megan Bell met in 2011, just 10 days or so after Josh opened the doors of Underground Books, literally underground, several steps below street level in a 100-year-old basement in our historic downtown. Megan, an English student at the University of West Georgia, walked in, fell down the rabbit hole, and never left! Reader, we married in May of 2014, under the book arch that now resides at the bookshop. We are both proud alumni of the Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar (CABS), and Megan additionally of Rare Book School at the University of Virginia and of the ABAA Women's Initiative Mentorship Program.
We have two open bookshops that carry new, used, bargain, rare, and antiquarian books, as well as our online office, impossible without our incredible team of booksellers, including two fellow CABS graduates, Miranda McMillan and Suzanne Carnes.
Like many booksellers with open brick-and-mortar stores, we are passionate generalists, but our specialties are in decorative publisher's cloth bindings; fairy tales, folklore, and mythology; popular science and natural history; the occult; and fine press books.
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- Facsimile
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- Spine
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