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The history of gardens / Christopher Thacker.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection SB465 .T47 1979b Moore Finlay copy
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Thacker, Christopher.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Gardens--History.
- Gardens.
- Gardens--Design--History.
- Gardens--Design.
- Genre:
- History.
- Penn Provenance:
- Moore, Graeme (former owner) (Moore Finlay Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 288 pages, [32] pages of color plates : illustrations (some color), plans ; 27 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : Croom Helm, 1979.
- Contents:
- The Beginnings
- Persian and Islamic Gardens
- Chinese Gardens
- Japanese Gardens
- Medieval Gardens
- The Renaissance Garden in Italy
- Jokes and Puzzles
- The Renaissance Garden in France and England
- The Formal French Garden
- Louis XIV and Versailles
- The Development of the Formal Garden in Europe
- Leaping the Fence
- The Perfectly Arcadian Farm
- The Total Landscape
- Gardens in the Nineteenth Century
- The Modern Garden.
- Notes:
- "Designed by John Leath."
- Illustrated lining papers.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-284) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Moore Finlay Collection copy purchased by the Penn Libraries in 2012 from Graeme Moore.
- Moore Finlay Collection copy has dust jacket retained.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Thacker, Christopher. History of gardens.
- ISBN:
- 0856648205
- 9780856648205
- OCLC:
- 5256745
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