Brookes, J. Garden Design Course.
Pub. Mitchell Beazley. 2007 pp.192 with colour photographs throughout. A nr. fine copy in same dw.
£9.00 [ref: 40772]
Brookes, J. Planting the Country Way. A Hands-on Approach.
Pub. BBC. 1994 pp.192 with colour photographs, plans and other figs. A vg. copy in same dustwrapper.
£8.00 [ref: 46313]
Clark, Peter. (Ed.). The European City and Green Space. London, Stockholm, Helsinki and St Petersburg, 1850-2000.
1st. Ed. Pub. Ashgate. 2006 pp.xxv, 318 with b/w. photos. 8vo. Private lib. stamp. Nr. fine. hardback.
Explores the variety of green space developments in the modern city. It considers the different types of green space, the many influences shaping their evolution, as well as how planning ideas are transmitted and adapted in different European cities.
£60.00 [ref: 58855]
Clouston, B. (Ed). Landscape Design with Plants.
Pub. Heinemann. 1977 pp.xiv, 456 with b/w. photographs, figs. and tables. A vg. copy in sl. marked boards.
£12.50 [ref: 38704]
Collens, G. & Powell, W. (Eds.). Sylvia Crowe. LDT Monographs No. 2.
1st. Ed. Pub. Landscape Design Trust. 1999 pp.191 with colour and b/w. photos and plans. 4to. Fine softback. As new. Limited edition of 750 copies.
An examination of the many varied fields of landscape design covered by one of the outstanding British landscape architects of the 20th Century. Contributions include personal accounts from those who worked with her.
£45.00 [ref: 58818]
Cooper, G. & Taylor, G. Paradise Transformed. The Private Garden for the Twenty-First Century.
1st. Ed. Pub. Moncelli Press. 1996 pp.208 with colour photos., throughout. 4to. Fine hardback in nr. fine hardback.
Documenting almost 50 projects from over 25 landscape architects, this is a major survey of contemporary private gardens. Featuring gardens by Dan Kiley, Ian Hamilton, Martha Schwartz and Fernando Caruncho among others.
£10.00 [ref: 58462]
Cox, E.H.M. (Ed.) New Flora and Silva. Volume 1 No. 1 to Volume 5 No. 4
1st. Ed. Pub. Dulau and Co. 1929-1933 Five volume run with many b/w., and some colour photos. 8vo. Hardbacks. Scattered foxing to fore-edges of text block and to some of the content, o/w. fine internally. Uniformly bound in original blue cloth with gilt lettering. Spines of vols. 1 and 2 gently faded, o/w. bindings in vg. condition. With original softcovers and adverts bound at the end of each volume.
This quarterly journal’s intention was to “interest all gardeners who are anxious to cultivate more than the standard varieties of garden plants such as are to be seen in every garden”.
£65.00 [ref: 53887]
Crowe, S. Tomorrow’s Landscape.
Pub. The Architectural Press. 1956 pp.207 with b/w. photographs throughout. Spine of boards sl. faded o/w. a vg. copy.
£25.00 [ref: 38466]
Crowe, Sylvia. Garden Design.
1st. Ed. Pub. Country Life. 1958 pp.229 with b/w. photos. plans and illus. Large 8vo. Hardback. Although not inscribed as such, from lib. of Sylvia Landsberg the highly esteemed designer and rejuvenator of gardens. Contents fine. Orignal boards, showing some marking on rear, o/w. thor. vg. Scarce in first edition.
Sylvia Crowe’s ‘Garden Design’ has influenced several generations of landscape architects and specialist garden designers since it was first published in 1958. It encompasses both a fascinating history of design in gardens and a stimulating study of the need for these principles to be applied to the contemporary landscape.
£75.00 [ref: 62408]
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