How to Lay Out a Garden: intended as A General Guide to Choosing, Forming, or Improving an Estate,... with reference to both design and execution.
by GARDENING. KEMP, Edward
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- Hardcover
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About This Item
Bradbury and Evans, London., 1858. Second edition. 12mo. pp xxxii, 403. Illustrations, diagrams, plans etc. Original green pebbled cloth decorated in gilt and blind. All edges gilt. Edward Kemp was one of the leading landscape architects of the mid-19th century. On the front pastedown is the armorial bookplate of a member of the Vernon family.Spine slightly faded. Small snags to head and tail of spine. Near fine.
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- Peter Ellis bookseller
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- GARDENIN010436
- Title
- How to Lay Out a Garden: intended as A General Guide to Choosing, Forming, or Improving an Estate,... with reference to both design and execution.
- Author
- GARDENING. KEMP, Edward
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Bradbury and Evans, London.
- Date Published
- 1858
- Keywords
- landscape gardens
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