Tanner, O. and Auchincloss, A. The New York Botanical Garden. An Illustrated Chronicle of Plants and People.
1st. Ed. Pub. Walker. 1991 pp.190 with colour photos. 4to. With publisher’s Errata leaf (2-sides) loosely inserted. Nr. fine hardback in fine dw., with very gently sunned spine.
The authors tell of the Garden’s growth as a major centre of scientific research and education. Through its plant-hunting expeditions to steaming jungles and remote mountain tops, and its many public programs in environmental education, The New York Botanical Garden continues to explore, and teach, the vital roles that plants play in our everyday lives.
£8.00 [ref: 65784]

Taylor, George. An Account of the Genus Meconopsis. With notes on the cultivation of the introduced species by E.H.M. Cox.
1st. Ed. Pub. New Flora and Silva. 1934 pp.xiii, 130 with frontispiece, 29 plates from photos. and 12 dist. maps. 4to. Hardback. Some spotting to fore-edges of text block and occ. internally o/w. contents fine. Original boards thor. vg.
£9.00 [ref: 40214]

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Taylor, H.V. The Apples of England.
1st. Ed. Pub. Crosby Lockwood. 1936 pp.266, xiii with col. frontis. and b/w. photos. Small 4to. Neat ownership insc. dated 29th July 1936 to ffep. Some light spotting to fore-edges of text block and to ends, o/w. a fine hardback in thor. vg. dw. Uncommon first edition, even more so in a dw.
Still considered by many to be the standard text.
£49.50 [ref: 71473]

Taylor, N.P. The Genus Echinocereus.
1st. Ed. Pub. RBG Kew / Collingridge. 1985 pp.160 with col. plates, line drawings & dist. maps. 8vo. Bookplate. Fine hardback in vg. plus dw.
A comprehensive account of this popular cactus genus with full cultural information with regard to general requirements, ie. light, water, composts, heating, etc.
£15.00 [ref: 69420]

Taylor, P. The Garden Lover’s Guide to France. Over 1000 Gardens from Versailles to Giverny.
Pub. Princeton. 1998 pp.144 with colour photographs throughout. A vg. copy in card covers.
£4.00 [ref: 40832]

Taylor, P. (Ed). The Oxford Companion to the Garden.
1st. Ed. Pub. OUP. 2006 pp.xxx, 554, with colour and b/w. photos., and illus. 4to. Fine hardback in fine dw., gently sunned. Out-of-print.
This book combines a survey of the world’s gardens with the ideas behind the. Biographies of garden designers and articles on a range of topics from garden visiting to garden elements and styles, and from scientific issues to the social history of gardens.
£25.00 [ref: 55344]

Taylor, Patricia. Thomas Blaikie. The ‘Capability’ Brown of France. 1751-1838.
1st. Ed. Pub. Tuckwell Press. 2001 pp.xvi, 256 with b/w. illus. 8vo. A nr. fine softback. Out-of-print.
Thomas Blaikie, born in 1751 at Corstorphine near Edinburgh, was the most fashionable garden designer in France at the end of the 18th century. He laid out and planted the gardens at Bagatelle in the Bois de Boulogne, for the Comte d’Artois (later becoming Charles X). Other famous gardens followed, and Blaikie’s diary gives an insight into the social life of the court where he was a great favourite of Marie Antoinette.
£30.00 [ref: 50580]

Telesko, Werner. The Wisdom of Nature. The Healing Powers and Symbolism of Plants and Animals in the Middle Ages.
1st. Ed. Pub. Prestel. 2001 pp.95 with col. illus. 4to. Fine hardback in thor. vg. dw.
£7.00 [ref: 63707]

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Temple, Nigel. John Nash & the Village Picturesque. with special reference to the Reptons and Nash at the Blaise Castle Estate, Bristol.
1st. Ed. Pub. Allan Sutton. 1979 pp.xx, 176 with b/w. photo. plates. Royal 8vo. A vg. hdbk. in vg. dw. Nigel Temple’s copy. Unique.
This is Nigel Temple’s copy. He has hand-written ‘Personal Check copy, amendments and corrections etc for inclusion in a second edition’ on the ffep. Notes in pencil at various points.
£50.00 [ref: 51109]

Thacker, C. The History of Gardens.
Rep Pub. Croom Helm. 1985 pp. 288 with 55 colour plates and numerous b/w. photographs throughout the text. A vg. plus copy in card covers.
In this work, Christopher Thacker tells the history of gardens from their origins in the ‘natural’ paradises of Greek myth to the present day. Studying individual gardens or garden topics which are representative of an age or region, he builds up a comprehensive survey of the gardens and garden theories of an era.
£18.00 [ref: 39799]