The Flower Garden in England Tapa dura - 1975

Hardback. Very Good.

HarperCollins Distribution Servi, 1975-05-22. Hardcover. Very Good. 2.3858 cent in x 21.7766 cent in x 14.3909 cent in. FIRST EDITION with dust jacket - rare and collectable - will send out 1 st class post

B. T. Batsford, 1975. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. In very good condition with VG DJ. With the help of extensive lists of plants culled from contemporary magazines and nurserymen's catalogues, and making use of the published work of the great collectors and hybridists, Richard Gorer has written here the first detailed analysis of the horticultural development of the flower garden in England. In a style as elegant as it is precise, and with the help of generous illustrations, he starts by discussing the influx of exotics in Elizabethan and Jacobean gardens. Then, after considering the planting styles of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, he goes on to write of what he calls the 'floral explosion'. This is the prelude to three chapters on the nineteenth century and three on the twentieth the great periods of the English flower garden. Using his scholarship in an easy and graceful manner, Richard Gorer has produced a work which will be of consuming interest to all serious… Leer más

B. T. Batsford Ltd., . First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Copy, Usual Labeling, Except Not At Jacket, from The Garden Center Of Greater Cleveland Botanic the Eleanor Squire Library, Price Clipped Jacket. Octavo, Green Cloth. 1975 B & W Illustrations Octavo, Green Cloth, , PP.178, The Development Of Horticulture And Gardening In England GB16top4

B. T. Batsford, 1975. Book. Very Good. hardback. 1st Edition. hardback, octavo, a very good tightly bound copy in a very good pictorial dust wrapper, the text is clean and unmarked, illustrated, 178pp.