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Furor Hortensis - essays on the history of the English landscape garden in memory of H.F. Clark
by Willis, Peter (editor); Jellicoe, Geoffrey; Nuttgens, Patrick
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
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About This Item
Edinburgh: Elysium Press Limited, 1974. Illustrated, quarto, pp 108 + plates, decorative cloth, the slightest signs of wear, but really a very good copy. Limited edition of 1000 copies. With the signature of the New Zealand botanist S. Challenger on the front endpaper. [Includes essays by Mavis Batey, Dorothy Stroud, Laurence Fricker etc on Stephen Switzer, Sir John Clerk of Penicuik, Charles Bridgeman, William Kent, Oliver Goldsmith, Humphrey Repton and John Claudius Loudon.]. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good.
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- Bookseller
- Mike Park Ltd
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 019729
- Title
- Furor Hortensis - essays on the history of the English landscape garden in memory of H.F. Clark
- Author
- Willis, Peter (editor); Jellicoe, Geoffrey; Nuttgens, Patrick
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Elysium Press Limited
- Place of Publication
- Edinburgh
- Date Published
- 1974
- Keywords
- garden history.royal.gardens.stowe.elysium.landscape.wembley park.Stephen Switzer.Sir John Clerk of Penicuik.Charles Bridgeman.William Kent.Oliver Goldsmith.Humphrey Repton.John Claudius. Loudon. j c.j.c.landscape.
- Bookseller catalogs
- Garden History; Landscape;
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