How to Lay Out a Garden: Intended As a General Guide In Choosing, Forming, or Improving an Estate ...
Book Description
                        Second edition.  Well illustrated with numerous in-text and full-page figures, ranging from bed sketches to garden or ground plans.
A bright copy; with a tiny hole affecting the “A” of “GARDEN” on the spine, dusty title page, and just a bit of cracking to the text block
                    
                                            Dealer Notes
                            This work is an expansion on the author’s 1850 How to Lay Out a Small Garden. 
Kemp, superintendent of Birkenhead Park (the world’s first publicly funded park), was an influential designer of both public and private parks and gardens across the UK. This beautiful book, with its gilt decoration and edges, its extensive illustrations and abundance of useful information, is a must for anyone interested in the history of garden design.
                                    Kemp, superintendent of Birkenhead Park (the world’s first publicly funded park), was an influential designer of both public and private parks and gardens across the UK. This beautiful book, with its gilt decoration and edges, its extensive illustrations and abundance of useful information, is a must for anyone interested in the history of garden design.
                        Author
                        Edward Kemp
                    
                    
                                        
                        Date
                        1858
                    
                    
                                        
                        Binding
                        Gilt decorated publisher’s cloth
                    
                    
                                        
                        Publisher
                        London: Bradbury and Evans
                    
                    
                    
                                        
                        Condition
                        Very good
                    
                    
                                        
                        Pages
                        xxxi, 403 p.
                    
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