Pleasure grounds : the gardens and landscapes of Hampshire / edited by Gill Hedley and Adrian Rance ; with a foreword by Hugh Casson
1987, First Edition. Horndean, Hampshire : Milestone Publications. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains well-preserved overall. Item #447652
ISBN: 1852651040
Physical description; 95 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm. Notes; "Published ... on the occasion of the exhibition Pleasure Grounds held at Southampton City Art Gallery, 1987." Includes bibliographical references (pages 83). Contents; Foreword / Sir Hugh Casson -- Introduction / Mrs Maldwin Drummond, Chairman Hampshire Gardens Trust -- Pleasure grounds : the gardens & landscapes of Hampshire / Gill Hedley, Krystyna Bilikowski -- The re-creation of a Medieval and a 16th century garden in Hampshire / Dr Sylvia Landsberg -- Formal gardens in Hampshire / Krystyna Bilikowski -- The New Forest and the Picturesque / Mavis Batey -- Archive sources for Hampshire gardens / Rosemary Dunhill -- "Dam the flower pots" : early difficulties of transporting plants by sea / Maldwin Drummond -- Literary gardeners in Hampshire / Gill Hedley -- List of gardens open to the public. Subjects; Art Gallery (Southampton). Gardens England Hampshire. Landscapes England Hampshire. Gardens. Landscapes. Landscape gardening History England Hampshire.
Price: €12.95