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Author / Creator:Fairbrother, Nan.
Imprint:New York, N.Y. : Lyons & Burford Publishers, c1997.
Description:xiii, 270, [1] p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8151542
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ISBN:1558215832 (pbk.)
9781558215832 (pbk.)
Notes:Originally published: London : Hogarth Press, 1956.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-[271]).
Summary:"A delightful tour through gardens and garden writing of the past."--Cover.
Table of Contents:
  • Why men have gardened
  • Enclosed Monastic: gardening in the Dark Ages
  • Enclosed Romantic: gardens of the Middle Ages
  • Enclosed fantastic: gardens of Tudor England
  • Early seventeenth-century garden literature
  • les Jardins de l'Intelligence
  • Gardens of seventeenth-century England
  • Seats of romantic gentlemen: the simple life in satin slippers
  • What do we want now?