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John Murray, 1906. Tenth Edition. Hard cover. Very Good. Some light foxing. Bound in blue cloth with gilt decorations of flower on front cover. William Robinson FLS (5 July 1838 – 17 May 1935) was an Irish practical gardener and journalist whose ideas about wild gardening spurred the movement that led to the popularizing of the English cottage garden, a parallel to the search for honest simplicity and vernacular style of the British Arts and Crafts movement and were important in promoting the woodland garden. In The English Flower Garden, Robinson laid down the principles that revolutionised the art of gardening. Robinson's source of inspiration was the simple cottage garden, long neglected by the fashionable landscapists. In The English Flower Garden he rejected the artificial and the formal, specifically statuary, topiary, carpet bedding, and waterworks—comparing the modern garden to "the lifeless formality of wall-paper or carpet." The straight… Leer más

London: John Murray, 1906, 1906. Tenth edition. 8vo; pp. xii, 974; illustrated with many engravings on wood. Light spotting to endpapers; faint stain to foredge; owner's name; else a good copy or better in original gilt decorated blue cloth..

London: John Murray, 1906. Tenth Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+ [Textblock Near Fine]. No DJ.. Tenth Edition. Hardcover. Light shelf/edge wear, bottom tips through, joints starting, ownership signature at ffep, else tight, bright, and unmarred. Blue cloth board, gilt lettering and decorative elements. 8vo. xii, 974pp. Illus. (b/w plates).

New.

Paperback / softback. New.

John Murray, 1902. 8th edn. Tall 8vo. Original gilt lettered gold cloth, top edge gilt, floral pattened endpapers (rubbed at head and tail of spine and boards lightly marked). Pp. xii + 892, illus with b&w photos and wood engavings (previous owner's armorial bookplate on front paste-down; no inscriptions).

Hardback. New.