Hunt, John Dixon. The Figure in the Landscape. Poetry, Painting and Gardening during the Eighteenth Century.
1st. Ed. Rep. Pub. John Hopkins Univ. Press./Softshell. 1989 pp.xiv, 271 with 75 b/w. plates. 8vo. Softback. Nr. fine with notes to half title and some spotting to endpapers & text block edges.
Charts how literature and the visual arts became entwined with horticulture and architecture in the development of English landscape gardening.
£12.50 [ref: 63366]
Jarman, Derek. Derek Jarman’s Garden.
1st. Ed. Rep. Pub. Thames and Hudson. 1998 pp.144 with colour and b/w. photos., throughout. Large 8vo. Fine hardback in nr. fine dw.
Derek Jarman created his own garden in the flat, bleak expanse of shingle that faces the nuclear power station in Dungeness, Kent. Here he produced a landscape which mixed flint, shells and driftwood with sculptures, indigenous plants, and shrubs and flowers he introduced.
£15.00 [ref: 60878]
Jekyll, G. Children and Gardens.
1st. Ed. Pub. Country Life. 1908 pp.x, 110 with b/w. plates and illus., plus catalogue of Country Life books. 8vo. Hardback. Signature dated 1916 to front pastedown. Scattered spotting to text, plates clean. Original cloth boards in good to vg. condition.
A review of this work at the time of publication by ‘The Liverpool Post’ read - ‘Little bits of Botany, quaint drawings of all kinds of things, pretty pictures, reminiscences and amusements - why, it is a veritable ‘Swiss Family Robinson’ for the bairns, and we shall be surprised and disappointed if it is not introduced into many hundreds of homes.’
£30.00 [ref: 66647]
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Jekyll, G. Wood and Garden. Notes and Thoughts, Practical and Critical, of a Working Amateur.
12th Imp. Pub. Longmans, Green and Co. 1914 pp.xvi, 286 with 71 illustrations from photographs by the author. Heavy foxing to portions of text and fore-edges. A few marks and bumps to boards. Overall a nr. vg. copy.
£23.00 [ref: 43566]
Jekyll, G. Wood and Garden. Notes and Thoughts, Practical and Critical, of a Working Amateur.
10th Imp. Pub. Longmans, Green and Co. 1904 pp.xvi, 286 with b/w. illus. 8vo. Hardback. Very charming bookplate of T.H. Lowinsky loosely inserted. Occ. light spotting internally o/w. contents fine. Original blue cloth with gilt lettering and decoration in vg. condition showing some shelf rubbing and sunning to spine.
Gertrude Jekyll’s thoughts on woodland gardening written in her wonderfully descriptive style. Twelve of the sixteen chapters cover the subject month by month, with the last three chapters covering large and small gardens, information for the beginner then flower-borders and pergolas.
£20.00 [ref: 66649]
Jekyll, Gertrude. Garden Ornament.
1st. Ed. Pub. Country Life. 1918 pp.xii, 460. Profusely illustrated with b/w. photographs. Folio. Hardback. AEG. Foxing to border and verso of illus. frontis., o/w. contents in fine condition. Marbled end-papers. Original boards with one small, circular rub on front board, overall in thoroughly vg. condition. A very pleasing copy indeed. Comes with letter to previous owner dated 1934 and a period Christmas card loosely inserted.
When originally published, Country Life promoted this book saying ‘With the continuous development of garden design there has arisen an increasing demand for a practical and comprehensive book entirely devoted to the right use of Garden Ornament, and this volume has been carefully designed to meet that demand.’
£325.00 [ref: 49786]
Jellicoe, G.A. Studies in Landscape Deisgn. Volume Two.
Pub. Oxford Unversity Press. 1966 pp.xvi, 126 with b/w. plates and other text figs. Hardback. Contents fine. Dustwrapper taped to boards.
An exploration ‘of the shaping of the land to accomodate the inumerable activities of modern man’.
£10.00 [ref: 46350]
Jellicoe, G.A. The Landscape of Civilisation. As Experienced In The Moody Historical Gardens.
1st. Ed. Pub. Garden Art Press. 1989 pp.200 with colour and b/w. photos., illus., and drawings throughout. 4to. Hardback. Address label neatly removed from ffep. A fine hardback in fine dw.
Describes the inspirations behind the initial conception of the Moody Historical Gardens in Galveston, Texas.
£15.00 [ref: 55071]
Jellicoe, G.A. The Landscape of Civilisation. As Experienced In The Moody Historical Gardens.
1st. Ed. Pub. Garden Art Press. 1989 pp.200 with colour and b/w. photos., illus., and drawings throughout. 4to. Hardback. Signature. Fine hardback in fine dw.
Describes the inspirations behind the initial conception of the Moody Historical Gardens in Galveston, Texas.
£10.00 [ref: 61584]
Jenkins, J. (et al). The Conservation of Historic Gardens. Proceedings of a Symposium held by the Garden History Society and Ancient Monuments Society, 9th May, 1984.
1st. Ed. Pub. Garden History Society. 1984 pp.51 with b/w illus. 8vo. Softback. Nr. fine with some darkening to covers.
A collection of essays conerning the protection and conservation of historic parks and gardens. Case studies include Sylvia Landsberg on the Tudor House garden in Southampton, and John Harvey on The Gardens of Kirby Hall, Northants.
£8.00 [ref: 63369]