Pleasure grounds : the gardens and landscapes of Hampshire / edited by Gill Hedley and Adrian Rance ; with a foreword by Hugh Casson
1987, First Edition. Horndean, Hampshire : Milestone Publications. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #438084
ISBN: 1852651040
Physical description; 95 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm. Notes; "Published ... on the occasion of the exhibition Pleasure Grounds held at Southampton City Art Gallery, 1987." Includes bibliographical references (pages 83). Gill Hedley was Keeper of Art, Southampton City Art Gallery. Mrs. Maldwin Drummond was Chairman of The Hampshire Gardens Trust. Contents; Foreword / Sir Hugh Casson -- Introduction / Mrs Maldwin Drummond, Chairman Hampshire Gardens Trust -- Pleasure grounds : the gardens & landscapes of Hampshire / Gill Hedley, Krystyna Bilikowski -- The re-creation of a Medieval and a 16th century garden in Hampshire / Dr Sylvia Landsberg -- Formal gardens in Hampshire / Krystyna Bilikowski -- The New Forest and the Picturesque / Mavis Batey -- Archive sources for Hampshire gardens / Rosemary Dunhill -- "Dam the flower pots" : early difficulties of transporting plants by sea / Maldwin Drummond -- Literary gardeners in Hampshire / Gill Hedley -- List of gardens open to the public. Subjects; Art Gallery (Southampton). Gardens England Hampshire. Landscapes England Hampshire. Gardens. Landscapes. Landscape gardening History England Hampshire.
Price: €12.95