The Marches. The New Naturalist Library #118.
London: Collins, 2011. 8vo. First edition. Original green cloth, gilt. Jacket design by Robert Gillmor. Mint in dust-wrapper.
Natural History & Gardening
Down the River.
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1937. 4to. First edition (with second state dust-wrapper). Original navy cloth, gilt. With 83 Engravings on Wood by Agnes Miller Parker. Slightly foxed d/w with some rubbing along edges and a very short closed tear to the top edge of the upper panel. Fine in near...
Down the River.
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1937. 4to. First American edition. Original textured navy cloth. With 83 Engravings on Wood by Agnes Miller Parker. D/w a bit scuffed to spine and with a small patch of abrasion to the bottom corner of the back panel. Fine in near fine dust-wrapper.
Landscape and Ideology. The English Rustic Tradition, 1740-1860.
Berkeley, Los Angeles & London: University of California Press, 1986. 4to. First edition. Original green cloth, gilt. Illustrated throughout in black and white with one section of colour plates. Fine in fine dust-wrapper.
The Garden. An Illustrated History from Ancient Egypt to the Present Day.
London: Thames and Hudson, 1967. 4to. Second impression. First published in 1966. Original green cloth, gilt. Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white. D/w faded on spine. Fine in near fine dust-wrapper.
Dragonflies (The New Naturalist Library).
London: Collins, 2008. 8vo. Limited edition. #65 of 250 copies bound in full leather and issued in a cloth slipcase. Blind-stamped 'NN' monogram to upper board. Gilt lettering to spine with two raised bands. All edges gilt. Publisher's tipped-in limitation note signed by Stephen Brooks. With many colour photographs by...
The Estate. A View from Chatsworth.
London: Macmillan (Papermac) for Chatsworth House, 1992. 8vo. First paperback edition. First published in 1990. Original card covers. With photographs by Nic Barlow in colour and black and white. Signed by the author on the title-page. Blind embossed round ownership on title-page. Fine.
The Garden at Chatsworth.
London: Frances Lincoln, 1999. 4to. First edition. Original black cloth. Photographs by Gary Rogers. Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white. Blind embossed round ownership on half-title. Signed by the author on half-title. Fine in fine dust-wrapper. Chatsworth Garden guide (c. 1999) loosely inserted.
A History of Garden Art. Edited by Walter P. Wright. Translated from the German by Mrs. Archer-Hind.
London, Toronto & New York: J. M. Dent & Sons Limited and E. P. Dutton & Co. Ltd, 1928. 4to. 2 volumes, set. First English language edition. First published in Germany in 1913. Original green buckram, gilt. With over 600 illustrations in black and white. Covers rather faded. Two book...
The Englishman's Flora. Foreword by Jane Grigson. Introduction by Professor William T. Stearn.
London: The Folio Society, 1987. 4to. First edition thus. First published in 1955. Original quarter green cloth, gilt, with patterned paper boards in slipcase as issued. Illustrated with woodcuts from sixteenth century herbals. Slipcase slightly dust-soiled. Fine.
Garden and Grove. The Italian Renaissance Garden in the English Imagination: 1600-1750.
London: J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd, 1986. 4to. First edition. Original green hardcovers, gilt. Illustrated throughout in black and white. Fine in fine dust-wrapper.
Gardens and the Picturesque. Studies in the History of Landscape Architecture.
Cambridge, MA and London: The MIT Press, 1992. 4to. First edition. Original quarter green cloth, gilt, with paper boards. Illustrated throughout in black and white. Fine in fine dust-wrapper.
William Kent - Landscape Garden Designer. An Assessment and Catalogue of his Designs.
London: A. Zwemmer Ltd, 1987. 4to. First edition. Original blue cloth, gilt. Illustrated throughout in black and white. Fine in fine dust-wrapper.
The Book of Garden Ornament.
London: J. M. Dent and Sons Limited, 1974. 4to. First edition. Original green cloth, gilt. Illustrated throughout in black and white. D/w has one very short closed tear to the top edge of the back panel. Fine in near fine dust-wrapper. Covering the expected statues, urns, sundials and fountains but...
An English Arcadia 1600-1900. Designs for Gardens and Garden Buildings in the Care of the National Trust 1600-1990.
London: The National Trust, 1992. 4to. First edition. Original blue cloth, gilt. Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white. Fine in fine dust-wrapper.
Georgian Gardens. The Reign of Nature.
London: B.T. Batsford, 1983. 4to. First edition. Original green cloth, gilt. Illustrated in colour and black and white. Price-clipped d/w is very lightly rubbed at edges. Fine in near fine dust-wrapper.
Some English Gardens.
London: Longmans, Green and Co. Ltd, 1935. 4to. New edition. First published in 1904. Original blue cloth, gilt. Tissue-guarded, colour plates reproducing water-colours by George S. Elgood, R.I. throughout. Covers slightly rubbed and corner tips pushed. Jekyll's notes accompany the illustrations. Several Scottish and Irish gardens are included despite the title.
Garden Ornament.
London: Country Life, 1918. Folio. First edition. Original navy cloth, gilt. Top edge gilt. Marbled paper endpapers. Illustrated throughout with black and white photographs and with a tipped-in, water-colour frontispiece by George S. Elgood. Covers a little rubbed. Frontispiece mount is rather foxed. Near fine. Sundials, pergolas, bridges, loggias, treillage...
Ladybirds.
London: HarperCollins, 1994. 8vo. First edition, first state. Original green cloth, gilt. D/w not price-clipped. Price given as £30.00 net. With sixteen colour plates and over 150 black and white photographs and drawings. Jacket by Robert Gillmor. Ladybirds on d/w spine are slightly faded as usual. Nearly imperceptible crease about...
La Foce. A Garden and Landscape in Tuscany.
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001. 4to. First edition. Original green cloth, gilt. Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white. Folded colour illustration of the villa and gardens laid in at rear. Blind embossed round ownership on title-page. Fine in fine dust-wrapper.
Ferns (The New Naturalist Library). Their Habitats in the British and Irish Landscape.
London: Collins, 1988. 8vo. First edition. Original green cloth, gilt. D/w not price-clipped. Price given as £30.00. With 'Collins' at the foot of the spine. With 21 colour photographs, and over 160 photographs and diagrams in black and white. Jacket by Robert Gillmor. D/w slightly faded on spine, as usual...
The Irish Garden.
London: Frances Lincoln, 2015. 4to. First edition. Original purple cloth. Photographs by Jonathan Hession. Illustrated throughout in colour. Blind embossed round ownership on half-title. Fine in fine dust-wrapper.
Observations on the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening.
London: Phaidon Press, 1980. 4to. Limited edition. #444 of 445 copies. A facsimile of the first publication in 1803. Quarter brown calf over brown cloth boards. Leather label to spine. Raised bands, gilt. Marbled end papers. Top edge gilt. In brown cloth slip case, as issued. 38 tissue-guarded plates, some...
The Red Books of Humphry Repton. Antony House (Cornwall), Attingham Park (Shropshire), Sherringham Hall (Norfolk) & Explanatory Volume by Edward Malins.
London: The Basilisk Press, 1976. Folio & 4to. 4 volumes, set. (3 quarto volumes and 1 folio). Limited edition facsimiles. #488 of 515 sets (of which 500 were for sale). Quarter red morocco with marbled boards, gilt, housed in individual slipcases within a brown box. The paper has been specially...
Loudon and the Landscape. From Country Seat to Metropolis, 1783-1843.
New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1988. Royal 8vo. First edition. Original green cloth, gilt. One section of colour plates. Illustrated throughout in black and white. Very slight wear to the spine ends of the d/w. Fine in near fine dust-wrapper.