Old London Gardens
by Taylor, Gladys
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good +/Very Good +
- Seller
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Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
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About This Item
London: B. T. Batsford Ltd, 1953 Book. Very Good +. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good +. 194 pp, color frontis of Buckingham House from St. James's Park, acknowledgments, list of 42 additional b&w illustrationsm plus decorative tailpieces at the end of chapters, I. The Earliest Gardens: Monastic Gardens, Westminster Abbey; II. Mediaeval Gardens: Ely Place, The Inns of Court; III. Conventual Gardens: Charterhous, Syon House; IV. Ecclesiastical Gardens: Lambeth Palace, Fulham Palace; V. Citizens' Gardens; VI. Hampton Court; VII. Famous Gardeners: Turner, Gerard, Parkinson, L'Obel, Tuggie, the Tradescants, the Garderners' Company; VIII. Vanished Gardens: The Great More House, Sir William Temple's Gardens, Sayes Court; IX. Chelsea Gardens: The Royal Hospital, The Physic Garden; X. More Famous Gardeners: Rose, London and Wise, Bridgeman, Kent, "Capability" Brown, Repton, the Loddiges, Robinson; XI. Private Gardens: Ham House, Chiswick House; XII. Royal Gardens: Buckingham Palace, Kensington Palace; XIII. Further Royal Gardens: The Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew; bibliography, index. First Edition, 1953. "The book's many illustrations are all taken from old prints and paintings in which each garden is seen in its prime. In a most interesting collection, the extraordinarily detailed engravings made by J. Kip and S. Knyff about 1700 are especially remarkable. If the book may be said to have a theme, it takes the form of a question: the intangible influence which gardens have had on men and women and through them on history.The beautiful illustrations lay stress on the importanace of this unanswerable query." from the jacket flap. Price clipped. Chips along top and bottom edge spine dj. Fading to top and bottom board edge, Pristine, no wear. Clean, tight and strong binding with no underlining, highlighting or marginalia. Green cloth with glt bands, gilt lettering to spine, and green top text block edge..
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- Bookseller
- West Side Book Shop, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 003756
- Title
- Old London Gardens
- Author
- Taylor, Gladys
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good +
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good +
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- B. T. Batsford Ltd
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1953
- Keywords
- ARCHITECTURE LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE ENGLISH GARDENS ILLUATRATED SOCIAL HISTORY
- Bookseller catalogs
- ARCHITECTURE;
- Size
- 8vo
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West Side Book Shop, ABAA
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