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Paul Mellon Centre. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 2022. Second Printing. Hardcover. Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 400 pages .

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pp. 400 . Hardback. New.

Hardback. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; A highly original study of eccentric English garden-makers and their extraordinary gardens

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Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, 2022. 400, 198 col + b/w illus. 240x165mm. HB. NEW. . A highly original study of eccentric English garden-makers and their extraordinary gardens In this new book, renowned landscape architect and historian Todd Longstaffe-Gowan reveals a series of obscure and eccentric English garden-makers who, between the early seventeenth and the early twentieth centuries, created intensely personal and idiosyncratic gardens. They include such fascinating characters as the superstitious antiquary William Stukeley and the animal- and bird-loving Lady Read, as well as the celebrated master of Vauxhall Gardens, Jonathan Tyers, who created at his home at Denbies one of the gloomiest and most perverse anti-pleasure gardens in Georgian England. Others built miniature mountains, shaped topiaries, displayed exotic animals, excavated caves and assembled architectural fragments and fossils to realise their gardens in a way that was often thought to be excessive. With quirky… Read More

Paul Mellon Ctr for Studies, 2022. Hardcover. New. 198 pages. 9.65x7.01x1.69 inches.

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Centre. New. 2022. Hardcover. 1913107264 . - *** IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy, brand new, pristine, never opened -- with a bonus offer-- .