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'A Veritable Eden'. The Manchester Botanic Garden: A History
by Ann Brooks
The Manchester Botanical and Horticultural Society was founded in 1827 to allow members the opportunity to study botany and horticulture and to create an ambience "not unlike a fashionable resort". Today the Garden is all but forgotten and only the former entrance gates and a street name remain. This book, illustrated with many contemporary engravings and postcards, charts the history of the Garden; its international reputation in horticultural ...
Paperback. Price GB £25.00

Gardens in History: A Political Perspective
by Louise Wickham
Over the past 50 years, the subject of garden history has been firmly established as an academic discipline. While many have explored what was created in gardens throughout history, the reasons as to why they were created has naturally been more diverse. Depending on the background of the author, the ideas have ranged from aesthetic values deriving from art, philosophical thoughts and ideas, social and even economic forces. Occasionally some ...
Paperback. Not yet published - advance orders taken. Publisher's Price GB £29.95, Our Price GB £25.00

Medieval Gardens
by Anne Jennings
In the medieval period gardens were not only sources of food and medicine but became admired for their beauty, refuges for relaxation and contemplation, and places for clandestine meetings. This concise study looks at the social history of medieval gardens from the peasant garden to the monastic garden and those of the aristocracy. Based on evidence taken from monastic records, illustrated manuscripts, poetic writings and so on, Anne Jennings ...
Hardback. Price GB £8.99

Suffolk's Gardens and Parks: Designed Landscapes from the Tudors to the Victorians
by Tom Williamson
The parks and gardens of the 17th century through to the Victorian era were objects of status and pride as well as being functional areas of the tamed landscape which could be used for leisure and for growing food. Tom Williamson discusses garden and park design and location, management and organisation, as well as those who commissioned, designed, built and managed them. He considers the impact of influences from the Continent, changes in ...
Paperback. Publisher's Price GB £20.00, Our Price GB £7.95

Earthly Paradises: Ancient Gardens in History and Archaeology
by Carroll, Maureen
`This is what I prayed for! a piece of land not so very large, Where there would be a garden... I am content' - Horace Satires. In many ancient cultures the garden was caught up with notions of earthly paradises as well as bein a source of status, prestige and a sign of affluence. Carroll's study looks at these earthly paradises in the ancient cultures of the Near East, Egypt, Greece, Italy and the Roman Empire, through archaeological and ...
Hardback. Publisher's Price GB £14.99, Our Price GB £6.95

Ancient Roman Gardens
by Linda Farrar
Attractive and readable study of the ancient Roman garden, drawing heavily on the evidence from Pompeii. Farrar extends her investigations from the vegetable patch to the exotic creations of the Imperial period. Planning and architecture, ornamentation and planting, gardening toll and techniques are all examined in readable style and with plenty of illustrations. 237p, col & b/w illus (Sutton 1998, repr 2011)
Paperback. Price GB £21.99

The Roman Garden: Space, Sense and Society
by Katharine T. von Stackelberg
This innovative book is the first comprehensive study of ancient Roman gardens to combine literary and archaeological evidence with contemporary space theory. It applies a variety of interdisciplinary methods including access analysis, literary and gender theory to offer a critical framework for interpreting Roman gardens as physical sites and representations. It examines how the garden functioned as a conceptual, sensual and physical space in ...
Hardback. Price GB £65.00

The Historic Gardens of England: Northamptonshire
by Timothy Mowl and Clare Hickman
The latest in Timothy Mowl's hugely popular series takes on the county of Northamptonshire, one which he describes as something of an oddity. It has notably fewer rivers than many counties, meaning a lack of moats as garden features, and has no great monastic holdings, but does have a preponderance of deer parks. In outlining the history and development of the county's gardens, Mowl reveals a host of little known gems, such as Inigo Jones' ...
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The Medieval Garden
by Sylvia Landsberg
Covers the various styles of garden from the small enclosed herber with its plant borders, turf benches and rose-covered trellises to the vast cultivated parks of royalty and nobility. Landsberg gives details of the construction and contents of the medieval garden as well as practical advice on how to create one of your own. Beautifully produced with colour illustrations from manuscripts and paintings. 144p, 35 colour and 50 b/w illus (British ...
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PACT 42: Garden History
edited by Dagfinn Moe, James H Dickson and Per Magnus Jorgensen
Papers from a symposium held at the European Iniversity Centre for Cultural Heritage, Ravello, June 1991, on garden plants, species, forms and varieties from Pompeii to 1800. In English, one in French. 199p, b/w and col pls, tbs (PACT 42, 1994)
Paperback. Publisher's Price GB £42.00, Our Price GB £24.95