Tooley, M. & Arnandar, P. Gertrude Jekyll. Essays on the life of a working amateur.
1st. Pub. Michaelmas Books. 1995 pp.xi, 245 with illustrations, garden plans and calendar of her life. Full of useful reference material. Pbk. Scarce.
£20.00 [ref: 24297]
Toomey, M. & Leeds, E. An Illustrated Encyclopedia of Clematis.
1st. Ed. Pub. Timber Press. 2001 pp.426 with col. photos. throughout, together with b/w. photos & illus. 4to. Gently bumped to top fore-corner o/w. a fine hardback in fine dw.
This book is divided into two sections: the first is devoted to to the care and cultivation of clematis, while the second provides an alphabetical list of more than 550 plants. With more than 650 colour photographs.
£25.00 [ref: 71392]
Treseder, Neil G. Magnolias.
Pub. Faber & Faber. 1978 pp.xviii, 243 with col. plates and figs. A vg. copy in similar dw.
£45.00 [ref: 19243]
Tricker, William. The Water Garden. Embracing the construction of ponds, adapting natural streams, planting, hybridizing, seed saving, propagation, building an aquatic house, wintering, correct designing and planting of banks and margins, together with cultural directions for all ornamental aquatics.
1st. Ed. Pub. A.T. De La Mare. 1897 pp.viii, 120 with nine b/w. plates and illus. throughout. 4to. Hardback. Period inscription and newspaper clippings attached to front pastedown, ffep., and verso of frontis. Spotting and other marks to ends, and occ. internally. Hinges tender. Original decorated boards good to vg.
A practical, easily absorbed, and well illustrated work on water gardening.
£30.00 [ref: 66642]
Triggs, H.I. Garden Craft in Europe.
Pub. B.T. Batsford. [c.1913] pp.xi, 332 profusely illustrated with b/w. photographs and plans. Small 4to. Hardback. TEG. Bookplate of Philip Sassoon (cousin of Siegfried Sassoon). Some spotting to ends, only very occ. elsewhere internally, o/w. contents fine. Original cloth boards with gilt lettering and decoration in thor. vg. condition. A very pleasing copy.
A history of formal gardens in Europe, following the author's travels and research on the Continent. Inigo Triggs, architect and garden designer, was one of the main personalities behind the formalist revival at the beginning of the century.
£110.00 [ref: 71894]
Turner, D. and Muir, K. The Handbook of Soft Fruit Growing.
1st. Ed. Pub. Croom Helm. 1985 pp.xiv, 181 with 23 col. photos. and b/w. figs. 8vo. Fine hardback. in vg. dw.
The wealth of information provided in this handbook ensures that it will be an invaluable guide to every gardener.
£5.00 [ref: 39720]
Turner, R. Capability Brown and the eighteenth-century English landscape.
1st. Ed. Pub. Weidenfeld & Nicholson. 1985 pp.204 with col. & b/w. photos. and illus. Large 8vo. Minor spotting to top-edge of text block o/w. a fine hardback in nr. fine dw.
An informative account of Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown’s life and work.
£7.50 [ref: 43440]
Turner, R. Capability Brown. and the Eighteenth-Century English Landscape.
2nd. Ed. Rep. Pub. Phillimore. 2006 pp.204 with colour and b/w. illus. 4to. A fine hardback in fine dw.
£12.50 [ref: 59110]
Turner, R. Euphorbias. A Gardener’s Guide.
1st. Ed. Pub. Batsford. 1995 pp.192 with col. photos. and line drawings. 8vo. Fine hardback in fine dw. Title page inscribed by the author.
The author details all the euphorbias suitable for outdoor cultivation in Britain, Europe and the USA. The book includes chapters on identification, nomenclature and cultivation.
£18.00 [ref: 71583]
Turner, T. Garden History. Philosophy and Design 2000 BC - 2000 AD.
1st. Ed. Pub. Spon Press. 2005 pp.ix, 294 with colour photos. and plans throughout. 4to. Minor spotting to top-edge of text block, o/w. a fine softback.
An extraordinary history, not of gardens in the conventional sense, but of the development of the garden as an idea and as a physical reality over 40 centuries.
£22.50 [ref: 68159]