Grainger, Hilary J. The Architecture of Sir Ernest George.
1st. Ed. Pub. Spire. 2011 pp.495 with col. & b/w. photos. and illus. 4to. Several pages with informed pencil notes. Very minor spotting to top-edge of text block o/w. a fine hardback in fine dw.
A detailed and well illustrated account of the life and works of this important 19th and early 20th British Architect. It includes projects with his three sucessive partners: Thomas Vaughan (1836-1875), Harold Peto (1854-1933) and Alfred Yeates (1867-1944).
£125.00 [ref: 71885]

Green, David. Gardener to Queen Anne. Henry Wise (1653-1738) and the Formal Garden.
1st. Ed. Pub. OUP. 1956 pp.xx, 232 with portrait of Henry Wise on the frontispiece and 53 plates at end of the volume. 4to Label removed from ffep., some spotting to top-edge of text block and prelims., o/w. a fine hardback in vg. dw.
The author traces Wise’s career from the founding of the nurseries in South Kensington to his retirement and death at Warwick Priory. This includes his work at Blenheim Palace and at Windsor and Hampton Court.
£80.00 [ref: 72049]

Groves, L. Historic Parks & Garden of Cheshire.
Pub. Landmark. 1993 pp.176 with colour photographs throughout. A vg. plus hdbk. in same dw.
£7.00 [ref: 39800]

Gunn & Sons, Limited (Olton, Warwickshire). Gunn’s Roses. Grown and offered for Sale by Gunn & Sons, Limited.
1st. Ed. Pub. Gunn & Sons. 1934 pp.20. Large 8vo. Minor spotting to first page o/w. a fine softback. Scarce.
Gunn & Sons were award winning Rose growers. This is their catalogue of Roses : Standard, Half Standards, Weeping Standards Scented, Dwarf, Ramblers, Climbers Dwarf Polyantha with hints on the treatment of Roses.
£15.00 [ref: 69819]

Gunn, F. Lost Gardens of Gertrude Jekyll.
1st. Ed. Pub. Macmillan. 1991 pp.144 with col. illus. & diagrams. 4to. Some spotting to fore-edges of text block o/w. a fine hardback in thor. vg. dw.
‘Gertrude Jekyll was involved in the design of more than 350 gardens. Of those plans only 220 exist - many of them incomplete. Here, Fenja Gunn tries to reconstruct in watercolours twenty of these gardens from the original plans, including two of the three designs Jekyll completed for American gardens.’
£10.00 [ref: 69753]

Hadfield, M. A History of British Gardening.
Pub. Spring Books. 1969 pp. 482 with 32 b/w. photographic plates. A vg. copy in green cloth boards.
£5.00 [ref: 46365]

Hadfield, M. & J. Gardens of Delight.
1st. Ed. Pub. Cassell. 1964 pp. 192 with colour and b/w. illus. 8vo. A thor. vg. hardback with gently sunned spine.
A history of gardening considering many aspects from plant collectors to the artist and the flower, through to garden design in the Orient and Europe.
£5.00 [ref: 58593]

Hamilton, Jill Duchess of, et al. The Gardens of William Morris.
Pub. Frances Lincoln. 2006 pp. 160 with colour plates throughout. A vg. copy in card covers.
£15.00 [ref: 44032]

Harding, S. and Lambert, D. Parks and Gardens of Avon.
1st. Ed. Pub. Avon Gardens Trust. 1994 pp.133 with col. & b/w. photos. & illus. 8vo. Light spotting to fore-edges of text block o/w. a fine softback.
A fascinating account of Avon’s many historic parks and gardens and the importance of their conservation.
£3.00 [ref: 69887]

Harris, J. (Intro.). The Rise and Progress of the Present Taste in Planting Parks, Pleasure Grounds, Gardens, Etc. From Henry the Eighth to King George the Third.
Facs. Ed. Pub. Oriel Press. 1970 pp.19. Small 4to. Hardback. Some spotting to ends o/w. contents fine. Original cloth boards thor. vg.
An anonymously published poetic, chronological account of landscape gardening, first printed in 1767. Its author, whose central subject in this epistle is Capability Brown, has remained anonymous to this day.
£5.00 [ref: 69931]