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In search of English gardens : the travels of John Claudius Loudon and his wife Jane / by John Claudius Loudon ; with a preface by John Sales and an introduction by Priscilla Boniface.
LIBRA - Athenaeum of Philadelphia Circulating SB466.G75 E55 1990
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Loudon, J. C. (John Claudius), 1783-1843.
- Series:
- National Trust classics
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Loudon, Mrs. (Jane), 1807-1858.
- Loudon, J. C. (John Claudius), 1783-1843.
- Gardens--England--History--19th century--Sources.
- Gardens.
- Gardens, English--History--19th century--Sources.
- Gardens, English.
- Loudon, J. C. (John Claudius), 1783-1843--Travel--England.
- Loudon, J. C.
- Loudon, Mrs. (Jane), 1807-1858--Travel--England.
- Loudon.
- Horticultural writers.
- Travel.
- History.
- England--Description and travel.
- England.
- Horticultural writers--Travel--England.
- Genre:
- Sources.
- Physical Description:
- 256 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Century, 1990.
- Summary:
- In the early 1830s and 40s John Claudius Loudon - creator of the first gardening magazine - and his wife journeyed through the countryside of Britain, recording all they saw. Loudon was obsessed by a desire to recall the great country parks and gardens of a nation in an era of impending change.
- Contents:
- Calls in Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire, Berkshire, Surrey, Sussex and Middlesex
- A tour from London to Manchester, Chester, Liverpool and the Lake District... with a visit to Hoole House
- A tour in Middlesex, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Wiltshire, Dorset and Hampshire
- A tour to Cashiobury Park, Ashridge Park, Woburn Abbey and Hatfield House
- A tour from London to Sheffield
- A tour in Lincolnshire and Staffordshire
- A tour in Scotland
- Travels in Devon, Cornwall and Somerset.
- Notes:
- Originally published: Wheathampstead : Lennard, 1987.
- Includes index.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Gift of Ellis A. Wasson, Ph.D.
- ISBN:
- 0712637311
- 9780712637312
- OCLC:
- 20525572
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