A natural history of English gardening, 1650-1800 / Mark Laird
New Haven ; London : Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art by Yale University Press, 2015. First Edition. An exceptional copy; fine in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Literally as new and still in the publisher's protective shrink-wrap. Item #440348
ISBN: 9780300196368
Date is suggested/cannot be verified. Physical description; xix, 440 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 30 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (pages 388-425) and index. Contents; Introduction -- Purity in the parsley bed -- Nursing pretty monsters -- Retaliating favours and taking up cudgels -- Cornucopia -- Fair play for their lives -- Virtu -- Aftermath. Subjects; Sayes Court (Deptford, London, England). Goodwood House (England). Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Bulstrode Hall (Buckinghamshire, England). 1600-1700. 1700-1800. 1600-talet. 1700-talet. 17th-18th centuries. Gardens, English History. Gardens, English History 18th century. Gardens, English History 17th century. Gardens, English History ; Pictorial works. Gardens, English England History.
Price: €125.00