ROHDE, Eleanor SinclairMareMagnum
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8vo [22 x 15 cm]; xii, 326 pp, 30 plates including colored frontis and other plates in color, other illus, 2 plans, bibliog, index. original cloth, spine title lettering dull but visible, bookplate on endpaper, minor foxing on few leaves, very good copy, clean. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. Covers ancient garden lore, medieval gardens, Tudor, Stuart and Georgian gardens, French and Dutch influences, landscape school, Victorian gardens, American gardens, appendices. The author was a respected and popular garden writer.
folio [33.5 x 27 cm]; 175 pp, color frontis, numerous color and bw illus, plans. original half cloth and boards, light fading and some edge wear, else very good. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. Useful for garden history of all parts of the United States, with good illustrations.
8vo [23 x 15 cm]; xi, 388, 24 (publisher's catalogue, dated April 1870) pp, two color lithographed plates including frontis, engraved illustrations. original pictorial cloth, spine ends bit frayed, spine darkened, very good clean copy. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. Catalogue of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society p. 217. Describes 621 species in some detail including their cultivation, requirements, etc.
4to [27 x 24 cm]; 244, hundreds of color and bw illustrations from photos by the author and from early sources, plans, glossary, bibliog, index. original cloth, silver spine title lettering, pictorial endpapers, dj (not price clipped), fine and clean. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. This rich comparative study concentrates on design and architecture, rather than on cultivation, and traces the movement of ideas across frontiers, as well as the persons that made them. Beautifully illustrated.