HISTORIC GARDENS OF SOMERSET
Written by Timothy Mowl, Marion Mako
Published by Redcliffe Press Ltd.
in 2010
ISBN: 9781906593568
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- TOPOGRAPHY (UK)
- SOUTH WEST UK
- SOMERSET
- GARDENS
- HISTORY
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HISTORIC GARDENS OF SOMERSET
Written by Timothy Mowl, Marion Mako.
Stock no. 1818748
1st.
2010.
Softcover.
Nearly fine condition.
The Historic Gardens of England Series. Pictorial cardwraps. Colour & b/w photos and illustrations. ISBN: 9781906593568. SIGNED by the author, Timothy Mowl, to title page (no dedication).
Front cover
Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Alfred, Arthur and the Holy Thorn- A County of Dark Age Legends
- 1 Water Closets, Banqueting Houses and a Lost Botanical Garden
- 2 Earthworks, An Episcopal Canal and Wildernesses - Formality Eventually Subverted
- 3 Rivals in Arcady
- 4 Poetry, Politics and Moses' Holy tabernacle in the Bath Hinterland
- 5 Somerset Gentry Spurn Lady Nature's Second Husband
- 6 Science, Technology, Biblical Exegesis and the True Source of Frankenstein
- 7 Garish Bedding, Terraces and a Confusion of Style - The Victorians
- 8 Where Stone Flowers at Least as VBigorously6 as the Plants - The Edwardian gardens
- 9 Twentieth-Century Plantswomen Take Centre Stage
- 10 Modernist and Traditional - A Very Patrician County
- Notes
- Gazetteer
- Map
- Index