Nineteenth-century gardens and gardening. Volume V, Garden design / edited by Sarah Dewis and Brent Elliott.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dewis, Sarah, editor.

Elliott, Brent, editor.

Taylor & Francis eBooks

Series:

NINETEENTH-CENTURY GARDENS AND GARDENING.5

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gardens--Design--History--19th century--Sources.

Gardens.

Gardens--History--19th century--Sources.

Gardening--History--19th century--Sources.

Gardening.

Horticulture--History--19th century--Sources.

Horticulture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxv, 272 pages) : illustrations (black and white.

Other Title:

Garden design

19th century gardens and gardening

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2024.

Contents:

Part 1: The Garden as a work of art. a) General theory. Illustrated motto from Designs for the Pavillon at Brighton / Humphry Repton ; 'The Artistic Beauty of Garden Culture: A Theoretical Essay' / Sigismund Gottfried Dittmar ; The Suburban Gardener and Villa Companion (excerpt) / John Claudius Loudon ; 'Original Beauty in Lines and Forms' / Ramsay Richard Reinagle ; 'Remarks on the Question, whether the Architect or the Landscape Gardener should be Employed First' / James Main ; 'Landscape and Ornamental Gardening' / William Henry Leeds ; 'On the Arrangement of Ornamental Plants' / Anon. ; 'How to Proceed in the Arrangement of Pleasure-grounds' / Donald Beaton ; 'Biddulph Grange' / Edward Kemp ; Garden-craft Old and New (excerpts) / John Dando Sedding ; The Art and Craft of Garden-Making (excerpts) / Thomas Mawson

b) …and in practice. Headlong Hall (excerpts) / Thomas Love Peacock ; De Clifford, or the Constant Man (excerpt) / Robert Plumer Ward ; How to Lay out a Garden (excerpt) / Edward Kemp ; Bouvard et Pécuchet (excerpts) / Gustave Flaubert ; The garden that I love (excerpts) / Alfred Austin.

Part 2: General principles of garden design. a) The landscape garden. Observations on the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening (excerpts) / Humphry Repton ; Lectures on Landscape Gardening in Australia (excerpt) / Thomas Shepherd ; 'On the Introduction of Single Trees into Park Scenery' / Robert Glendinning ; 'Landscape Gardening' / Robert Henry Cheney ; 'Enclosure' / Hermann Graf von Pückler-Muskau ; 'Observations on the Landscape Gardening of Germany, as Compared with that of England' / Carl August Sckell ; 'Landscape Garden Containing a Symmetrical Garden' / MM. Denis & Renouard ; The Suburban Gardener and Villa Companion (excerpt) / J. C. Loudon ; 'American and European Scenery Compared' (excerpts) / James Fenimore Cooper ; Treatise on the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening (excerpt) / Andrew Jackson Downing ; The Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening (excerpts) / Joshua Major ; 'Marnock’s Maxims' / Mungo Temple ; The Art and Practice of Landscape Gardening (excerpt) / H. E. Milner ; 'Planting for Landscape Effect' / Thomas Mawson

b) The architectural garden and historical revivals. Enquiry into the Changes of Taste in Landscape Gardening (excerpt) / Humphry Repton ; Fragments on the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening (excerpt) / Humphry Repton ; Introduction to his edition of The Landscape Gardening and Landscape Architecture of the Late Humphry Repton Esq. / John Claudius Loudon ; The Flower Garden (excerpt) / Charles M’Intosh ; 'On the Arrangement of Gardens and Pleasure-Grounds in the Elizabethan Age' / John Lindley ; 'Elvaston Castle, the Seat of the Earl of Harrington' / Robert Glendinning ; 'Shrubland Park' / Donald Beaton ; How to Lay out a Garden (excerpts) / Edward Kemp ; The Royal Horticultural Society's Gardens at Kensington ; 'Horticultural Society’s New Gardens' / F. G. Stephens ; 'Our Weekly Gossip' / William Hepworth Dixon ; 'Horticultural Gardens, South Kensington' / F. G. Stephens ; Leader from Gardeners’ Chronicle / John Lindley and William Andrews Nesfield ; Introduction, Les Promenades de Paris / Adolphe Alphand ; Days and Hours in a Garden (excerpt) / Eleanor Vere Boyle ; Garden-craft Old and New (excerpt) / John Dando Sedding ; The Formal Garden in England (excerpts) / Reginald Blomfield ; Garden Design and Architects' Gardens (excerpt) / William Robinson ; 'The Artistic Aspirations of the Gardeners of our Century' / Lothar Abel.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9780429198793 (electronic bk.)

0429198795 (electronic bk.)

Publisher Number:

90104033407

CIPO000073325

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