The Art and Practice of Landscape Gardening

Norwood; Stationers' Hall Court, London: The Author; Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co Ltd Quarto, illustrated with 22 plates, pp (4], 116, deckle-edged, top edge gilt, endpapers a bit foxed and age-toned, the ten sepia plates are foxed on their versos but the plates thenselves show only very faint traces, the blank pages facing the plates have a little offsetting, there is a marginal tear to the plate facing page 37, green cloth slightly scuffed, the corners rubbed, the spine slightly pulled at head and tail. Overall though still a very presentable copy. SCARCE. [The book contains 22 leaves of plates. Ten of these are etched views of gardens or features of garden scenery, one of them named as a view of Keszthely. The other ten are lithographed plans, two (facing each other between pp. 54 and 55) uncoloured, and eight (including two double-page spreads mounted on stubs) with beige and green tint. Among these are plans of the Buxton Pavilion grounds, Stoke Cemetery, Keszthely, and [Yeaton] Peverey. Milner succeeded his father Edward Milner as director of the Crystal Palace School of Gardening (for the prospectus of which, see Gardeners' Chronicle, 2 April 1881, p. 437). It has been inferred by some that some of the content is based on Edward Milner's works as well as H.E. Milner's own; for example, the plate facing p. 63 resembles the landscape garden designed by Edward Milner at Rangemore Hall, Staffordshire.]. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good.