Gentlemen & players : gardeners of the English landscape / Timothy Mowl
2000. Stroud, Gloucestershire : Sutton. Fine paperback copy. Particularly well-preserved; tight, bright and clean. Item #443635
Physical description: xiv, 218 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps, plans (some color) ; 25 cm. Contents: Introduction Imagining arcady -- Ch. 1 Inigo Jones : the stage designer as gardener -- Ch. 2 Samuel Hartlib and the gardens of pansophic reason -- Ch. 3 John Beale and a puritan vision of landscape gardens -- Ch. 4 The gardens of the Evelyns : George, John and Captain George -- Ch. 5 George London and Henry Wise : garden design as big business -- Ch. 6 Sir John Vanbrugh, Charles Bridgeman and the rise of the temples -- Ch. 7 Addison, Switzer and 'that inexpressible somewhat' -- Ch. 8 Alexander Pope and the 'genius of the place' -- Ch. 9 Lord Burlington, William Kent and an arcadian picturesque -- Ch. 10 Southcote, Shenstone, Spence and the arcadian Ferme Ornée -- Ch. 11 Gentlemen in control : the 'Rococo' garden -- Ch. 12 Capability Brown : the professional and his ideal English parkscape -- Ch. 13 The wild men of the Welsh Border : Richard Payne Knight and Uvedale Price -- Ch. 14 Humphry Repton : public relations and the gardenesque. Subjects: Landscape architects England. Gardens England Design. Landscape gardening England History. Gardens and garden architecture British Isles 17th century, 18th century.
Price: €14.95