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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… Read More

London: The Author and Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent, And Co., Limited, 1890., 1890. 4to. pp. 4 p.l., 116. 10 etched plates in sepia, 2 plans of tree plantations, & 10 partly coloured plates of garden plans (2 double-page). original cloth, t.e.g., others uncut (spine ends & corners frayed). First Edition. The author was the son of Edward Milner, who was the colleague for many years of Sir Joseph Paxton, and the younger Milner worked for many years with his father. "It is not the author's intention by this book to give another history of landscape gardening; his intention is rather to record the present development of the art and his own relation to, and practice of it. The love of natural picturesqueness is of very modern growth in England.It is the province of the Landscape Gardener, as I understand the art, to appreciate the multitudinous means whereby Nature expresses her beauty, and to use those means artistically as to arrange their force for producing the delightful result… Read More