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HISTORIC GARDENS OF SOMERSET

by Timothy Mowl; Marion Mako

Published by Redcliffe Press Ltd.. 1st. 2010

Nearly fine condition. The Historic Gardens of England Series. Pictorial cardwraps. Colour & b/w photos and illustrations.

SIGNED by the author, Timothy Mowl, to title page (no dedication).

ISBN: 9781906593568
Stock no. 1818748

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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

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