Search Results: Authors starting with B from J. A. Lascelles & Sons

London: Printed for G. G. and J. Robinson, Paternoster-Row, 1799. 1st Edition. Original Publisher's Board. Good. 8º., 23cm. ; 471 p.; Spine title panel in paper. Corners bumped, paper spine cover chipped, general soiling; Retains both half-title and the folding tree-blossoming schedule in rear. Most pages still unread and uncut. Rare in original publisher's blue paper-covered boards.

London: Printed for John Wright, at the Kings-head in the Old-Bayley, 1653. Second Edition. Full calf. Very good. 4to, 18cm.; 274 pp.; Includes the folding plate of windmill., Rebacked with six panels with gilt title and date; Some general darkening of paper. Initial engraved title page a tad chipped and frayed.

London: MacMillan & Co, 1901. 3rd Edition. Buckram. 8º, 20cm. ; xvi, 250pp.; cream colored buckram with gilt flower urn, topiary and swallows pressed on cover, gilt title to spine, edges tinted green; spine darkened with small abrasion, interior very good. The preface to the third edition has Blomfield in a more conciliatory and reflective mood after his stinging rebuke to William Robinson in the preface to the 2nd edition. Blomfield does not mention Robinson's name here (referring to him only as 'a writer with a turn for petty sentiment' , but alludes to the controversy between landscape gardeners and architects.

London: MacMillan & Co, 1892. 2nd Edition. Buckram. Thomas, F. Inigo. 8º, 20cm. ; xxx, 244pp.; cream colored buckram with gilt flower urn, topiary and swallows pressed on cover, gilt title to spine, edges tinted green; signed in pencil on fly leaf by author Reginald Blomfield; B. H. Blackwell Booksellers, Oxford, ticket to lower fr. pastedown; covers soiled and spine darkened, slightly cocked, interior very good. The more desirable 2nd edition. In reply to William Robinson's forceful essay 'Garden Design and the Architects' Garden' Blomfield released this second edition within the same year as the first with a new, greatly expanded preface. Blomfield and Robinson would come to represent two opposing visions of the English garden, which pitted landscape gardeners against architects. It was a debate that would largely be resolved by the work of Edwin Lutyens and Gertrude Jekyll over the following 20 years.

London: MacMillan & Co, 1892. 2nd Edition. Buckram. Very good. Thomas, F. Inigo. 8º, 20cm.; xxx, 244pp.; cream colored buckram with gilt flower urn, topiary and swallows pressed on cover, gilt title to spine, edges tinted green; small booksellers stamp to front pastedown: C.E. Thomas, Worthing; covers lightly soiled, interior very good. The more desirable 2nd edition, in relatively clean covers. In reply to William Robinson's forceful essay 'Garden Design and the Architects' Garden' Blomfield released this second edition within the same year as the first with a new, greatly expanded preface. Blomfield and Robinson would come to represent two opposing visions of the english garden, which pitted landscape gardeners against architects. It was a debate that would largely be resolved by the work of Edwin Lutyens and Gertrude Jekyll over the following 20 years.

London: Printed for the Author; and sold by J. Almon, in Piccadilly ; Printed For J. Johnson, No. 72, St. Paul's Church-yard, 1779. 1st Edition ; 2nd Edition. 1/2 Calf. Good. 8º, 20cm; [ii], 108pp + errata; [i], 100pp. + appendix and plates.; 4 pls.; 3 pls.; gilt title to spine compartment in red leather label; all foldout plates accounted for and complete; marbled paper-covered boards toned and rubbed, hinges starting, but all cords holding.; contemporary title in ms. on fr. flyleaf;. The first book on water-meadows. (Fussell).

Edinburgh: Printed for James Watson, No. 40 South Bridge, 1799. Second Edition. Original Publisher's Board. Good +. 8º, 22cm.; 293pp. (appendix 121pp.).

Edinburgh: Printed for Oliphant, Waugh, and Innes, Edinburgh; and Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, London, 1811. 1st Edition. 1/2 Calf. Good +. 8º, 22cm.; 2 vols. 477pp., 459pp.; Pls.; Blue marbled boards, corners exposed. Page toning. Red title label in spine compartment. Originally published in the Edinburgh Encyclopedia, 1811; here seperatly printed in 2 volumes. Fussell rhapsodized about Brown as perhaps the most competant and literate author of the County guides along with Rennie; repeating the eulogy that his work was second only to the Bible. (Fussell III).

Boston: William Hyde & Co, 1832. 1st Edition. Cloth. Good. 8º, 23.5cm.; 408pp., frontis., 111 pls.; Untrimmed; foxing, damp staining and soiling; Inscr. to Rochester nurseryman and first editor of the Genesee Farmer [Naaman Goodsell] by the publisher.