The flowering of the landscape garden : English pleasure grounds, 1720-1800 / Mark Laird
by Laird, Mark
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- ISBN 13
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Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in a near fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered. Series; Penn studies in landscape architecture. Physical description; xvii, 446 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (pages 419-427) and index. Contents; Preface -- Introduction: Locating the Georgian Shrubbery and Flower Garden -- Chapter 1: The Origins of Theatrical Planting -- Chapter 2: The North American Influx: A Mania for Pines and Magnolias -- Chapter 3: The First Shrubberies: Circuits, Clumps, and Axiality -- Chapter 4: The Role of Exotics in Early Shrubberies Great and Small -- Chapter 5: Flowers in Cones, Crescents, Circles, and Conservatories -- Chapter 6: Flower Gardens Before Nuneham: The Planting Palette -- Chapter 7: The Shrubbery Codified -- Chapter 8: Shrubberies Perfected: Professionals in the Pleasure Ground -- Chapter 9: Theatrical Flower Beds and Flowering Elysiums -- Chapter 10: A Flower Garden of Profusion and Luxuriancy -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index of Names and Places -- Index of Plant Names -- Permissions and Credits. Subjects; Gardens, English History 18th century. Gardens England History 18th century. Gardens, English. Gardens, English History 18th century. Gardens England History 18th century. Landscape gardening-England-History. Gardens, Georgian-England. Landscaping. Horticulture. Garden history. Gardens and garden architecture British Isles 18th century. Flowers. Gardens - Great Britain. Genre; History.
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- Title
- The flowering of the landscape garden : English pleasure grounds, 1720-1800 / Mark Laird
- Author
- Laird, Mark
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 081223457X
- ISBN 13
- 9780812234572
- Publisher
- Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia
- Date Published
- 1999
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