Search Results: Gardens & Horticulture from Bird's Books

London: King Penguin Books, 1939. First edition. Hardcover. Fair. Pierre-Joseph Redouté. King Penguin K2. Slim hardback 32pp with 16 coloured plates, one black and white portrait in text. Card covers. Some shelf wear particularly to spine and a couple of marks on the front board. An introduction about Redoute and a brief history of the rose in cultivation followed by descriptions of individual roses and the attractive coloured plates. Nice and clean inside, the plates are in very good condition.

London: King Penguin Books, 1946. First edition. Hardcover. Fair. King Penguin K29. Slim hardback 32pp with 24 coloured plates. Pictorial card covers. Some shelf wear, particularly to spine. This describes the British woodland flowers throughout the year with really lovely clean plates inside. Cover design by Rosemary and Clifford Ellis.

4to, 285pp, illustrated throughout. Very good+ with previous owner's pictorial bookplate on front pastedown. Pictorial good+ dust jacket with some edge wear/ sunning . 'From the late Middle Ages, when it embodied spirituality, through the end of the eighteenth century, when it offered pleasurable surroundings for banquets, poetry readings, and amorous pursuits, the garden figured prominently in everyday Roman life. In this lavishly illustrated history, David Coffin provides a wealth of information on how Italian gardeners worked with the elements of color, fragrance, sound, shade, architecture, sculpture, and wildlife to achieve a wide variety of sensual effects. In so doing he presents the stages of evolution in classic Italian gardening, which was replaced in the late eighteenth century by the more naturalistic English style. Coffin first considers the role of cloistered gardens in the Middle Ages and shows how they were later incorporated as private spaces within the larger Renaissance gardens.… Read More