How to Lay Out a Garden: Intended As a General Guide In Choosing, Forming, or Improving an Estate ...
Book Description
Second edition. Well illustrated with numerous in-text and full-page figures, ranging from bed sketches to garden or ground plans.
A bright copy; with a tiny hole affecting the “A” of “GARDEN” on the spine, dusty title page, and just a bit of cracking to the text block
Dealer Notes
This work is an expansion on the author’s 1850 How to Lay Out a Small Garden.
Kemp, superintendent of Birkenhead Park (the world’s first publicly funded park), was an influential designer of both public and private parks and gardens across the UK. This beautiful book, with its gilt decoration and edges, its extensive illustrations and abundance of useful information, is a must for anyone interested in the history of garden design.
Kemp, superintendent of Birkenhead Park (the world’s first publicly funded park), was an influential designer of both public and private parks and gardens across the UK. This beautiful book, with its gilt decoration and edges, its extensive illustrations and abundance of useful information, is a must for anyone interested in the history of garden design.
Author
Edward Kemp
Date
1858
Binding
Gilt decorated publisher’s cloth
Publisher
London: Bradbury and Evans
Condition
Very good
Pages
xxxi, 403 p.
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