The Garden Book

Phaidon Press, 2000, [First Edition], ISBN 071483985X, colour photographs throughout, large hardcover, dustjacket

Very Good Condition, a little edge and shelf wear, a little rubbing, bumping to edges and corners, no inscriptions (see photographs)

“The Garden Book is a comprehensive illustrated survey of 500 of the world’s most influential garden makers – designers, patrons and owners – and their gardens.  The selection gives an unrivalled overview of the world’s gardens and landscapes, from ancient times to the present day.  Garden design is a large-scale, time-consuming artform, with relatively few celebrated auteurs – such as Capability Brown, Kobori Enshu, Gertrude Jekyll and Andre le Notre.  The Garden Book brings these and many lesser known but highly deserving garden makers to wider attention.  It ranges over centuries and across continents, to reflect times and places when garden innovation and creativity were at the height: Ancient China and Japan; Renaissance Italy; seventeenth-century France and Holland; eighteenth-century Britain; and the USA in the twentieth century.”