1985 Capability Brown and the Eighteenth-Century English Landscape

Description

First Edition, Illustrated, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding, With Dustwrapper

First edition. A review copy with the original notice from the publishers. Illustrated with twelve colour plates and eight black-and-white images. Collated complete. A detailed study of the life and work of Lancelot "Capability" Brown, an English gardener and landscape architect who was a notable figure in the history of the English landscape garden style. With a short biography, and chapters on landowners and landscape, the progress of taste, the landscape garden, style and techniques, Brown parks, and more. Written by Roger Turner, a British garden designer and writer of gardening-related non-fiction books.