on the Making of Gardens
Sir George Sitwell
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Book Details:
Publisher:John Murray
Published Date:30th November -0001
Binding:Hardback
Condition:VeryGood
Notes:1st 1909 John Murray Hardback; no dust jacket; beautiful picture boards design to front; 8vo. viii, 109, [1], [2, ads] pp. Publisher's pictorial cloth; binding strong with no tears, slight darkening to spine but gilt titles bright;; slight foxing to prelims; First edition of Sir George Sitwell's classic celebration of the gardens of Tuscany, Rome and the Italian lake district more philosophical treatise than manual of plant care and practical garden design. "Before the final overthrow of the Picturesque in the twentieth century, English Romantics looked once more to Italy, perceiving in its decayed villa gardens a certain kind of landscape poetry. Perhaps the most Romantic analysis of Italian villa gardens was by the early-twentieth-century English aesthete Sir George Sitwell (1860-1943)
