Solly, V.N. Gardens for Town and Suburb.
1st. Ed. Pub. Ernest Benn. 1926 pp.122 plus 39 fine b/w. plates, colour frontis., and garden plans. Small 4to. Minor spotting, o/w. contents fine in original boards in thor. vg. / nr. fine condition.
A beautifully illustrated, inspiring and imaginitive consideration of what can be achieved within the confines of a small garden in an urban environment.
£12.50 [ref: 62008]
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Spens, Michael. Gardens of the Mind. The Genius of Geoffrey Jellicoe.
1st. Ed. Pub. Antique Collectors’ Club. 1992 pp.191 with colour photos and illus. 4to. Fine hardback in fine dw.
The first detailed study of Geoffrey Jellicoe’s approach to individual projects and the symbolism and varied influences behind his thinking.
£25.00 [ref: 62027]
Stevens, D. Backyard Blueprints. design, furniture and plants for a small garden.
1st. Ed. Pub. Jacqui Small. 2002 pp.144 with many fine photographis illus. VG. to fine in same dw.
£4.00 [ref: 31518]
Stevens, D. Town Gardens. Successful Gardening in one hour a week.
1st. Ed. Rep. Pub. Guild Publishing. 1989 pp.144 with colour photos. throughout. 4to. Fine hardback in nr. fine dw.
Shows how to ‘create a garden geared to your personality, lifestyle and needs, which is truly labour saving, a garden which will flourish with only an hour a week’.
£10.00 [ref: 61174]
Villiers-Stuart, C.M. Spanish Gardens. Their History, Types and Features.
1st. Ed. Pub. B.T.Batsford. 1929 pp.xii, 138 with colour frontis., b/w. photos. and illus., throughout plus 30 page publisher’s catalogue. Large 8vo. A nr. fine hardback.
A very pleasing copy of this sought after work.
£75.00 [ref: 59106]
Waymark, J. Modern Garden Design. Innovation Since 1900.
1st. Ed. Pub. Thames and Hudson. 2003 pp.256 with col. photos. throughout. 4to. Fine hardback in vg. dw.
Modern garden design spans over a century, beginning in the Victorian era and continuing into the age of Land Art. This work sets the best known gardeners of this era in their historical and international context.
£6.00 [ref: 40771]
Weddle, A.E. Techniques of Landscape Architecture.
1st. Ed. Pub. Heinemann. 1967 pp.xx, 226 with b/w. photographs and other text figs. A vg. copy in sl. chipped dw.
£10.00 [ref: 43574]
Wilkes, A.J. Flowforms. The Rhythmic Power of Water.
1st. Ed. Rep. Pub. Floris Books. 2005 pp.239 with colour, b/w. photos. and illus. Small 4to. Nr. fine softback.
The result of many years of investigation into the flow and rhythm of water, this work showcases the beauty of the ‘Flowform’ and the wide range of its applications in the garden and elsewhere.
£12.00 [ref: 61590]
Willis, P. Charles Bridgeman and the English Landscape Garden.
1st. Ed. Pub. A. Zwemmer. 1977 pp.xxi, 233 plus 186 pages of b/w. photographs. Large 4to. With the bookplate of Nigel Temple author, garden, landscape and architectural historian. Thor. vg. hardback in vg. dw. With a photocopy of Bridgeman’s Plan for Lodge Park c.1725 and an aerial photograph showing the Park as it was in the 1980s loosely inserted.
Bridgeman was a key figure in the establishment of ‘Le Jardin Anglais’; that remarkable English invention which was to sweep eighteenth-century Europe.
£37.50 [ref: 63371]