English garden eccentrics : three hundred years of extraordinary groves, burrowings, mountains and menageries / Todd Longstaffe-Gowan.

"In his new book, English Garden Eccentrics, renowned landscape architect and historian Todd Longstaffe-Gowan reveals a series of obscure and eccentric English garden-makers who, between the early seventeenth and the early twentieth centuries, created intensely personal and idiosyncratic gardens. Th...

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Main Author: Longstaffe-Gowan, Todd, 1960- (Author)
Language:English
Published: London : Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, 2022.
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Physical Description:vii, 392 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Format: Book

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504 |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 370-379) and index. 
505 0 |a Introduction -- The 'Enston-Rock' : ‘A Mad Gim-cracke Sure' -- Lady Broughton's 'Miniature Copy of the Swiss Glaciers' -- Friar Park : ‘Alpinism at Home' -- Sir Charles Isham's Gardens at Lamport Hall : 'A Disconcerting Eruption' -- Topiary on a Gargantuan Scale : The Clipped 'Yew-trees' at Four Ancient London Churchyards -- Lord Petersham's Gardens at Elvaston Castle : 'A Modern Palagonia' -- The Countess of Dudley's 'Stop and Buy' Topiaries -- Lady Reade and her 'Gaudy Natives of the Tropics' -- Lady Dorothy Nevill and her Ephemeral 'Exotic Groves' -- Brookes's Vivarium : 'A Curious Assemblage of Life and Death' -- Russell Collett and Sir Robert Heron : Gardens and Goldfish -- Charles Waterton : 'Unwearied Outdoor Observer' -- Antediluvian Antiquities at Banwell Caves and Pleasure Gardens -- Hawkstone : 'A Kind of Turbulent Pleasure between Fright and Admiration' -- The Burrowing Duke at Harcourt House -- Denbies : 'A Persuasive Penitentiary' -- 'Do You Know Thomas Bland?' -- Stukeley's Travelling Gardens -- West Wycombe Park : 'Pretty, but very Whimsical' -- Dr Phené's 'Senseless and Bewildering Accumulation of Incongruous Things' -- Bedford's Modern Garden of Eden -- Coda: The Present Status of the Gardens. 
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