David Ottewill — The Edwardian Garden

New Haven; London, Yale University Press, 1989. First edition. Cloth. A richly illustrated first comprehensive study of the Edwardian garden, exploring its design, social context, and key figures, including the celebrated Blomfield–Robinson feud. In the publisher's original cloth binding. First edition.Complete with the original unclipped dust wrapper. Illustrated with 305 images, figures, and photographs, many in colour.The first comprehensive study of the Edwardian garden, with its formal enclosures and exuberant informal planting, considered one of the most evocative features of Britain pre-the First World War. Providing images of some of the finest gardens of this period, as well as a survey of the people, attitudes, and theories that influenced their design. Includes discussions on the politicized beginnings of the Edwardian garden and analysis of the Blomfield-Robinson feud of the 1890s. Written by David Ottewill, a British art historian, architect, and lecturer. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, lovely, with the slightest shelf wear and fading to extremities. Dust wrapper, very smart. With very slight rubbing and bumping to extremities, heavier to head and tail of spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean. Near Fine . Ill.: None Stated. Near Fine/Near Fine.