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'Gardens of Britain'. LEMMON Kenneth The Gardens of Great Britain.Yorkshire and Humberside 207pp, plus 25 b&w illustrations, 8 colour plates, garden plans. Cloth, 22x15. Good, dust wrapper. London, Batsford, 1978. In association with the Royal Horticultural Society. [Ref:16827]	£10
ADAMS William Howard The French Garden 1500-1800. 159pp, 168 ills, bibliography. Publisher's cloth. 26x19. Ex library, minimal stamps, vg, copy thus, in nice dust wrapper. London, Scolar, 1979. Scholarly account, well illustrated. Hard to find. [Ref:28162]	£25
ALLINGER Gustav Das Hohelied von Gartenkunst unf Gartenbau.150 Jahre Gartenbau-Ausstellungen in Deutschland iii, 166pp incl 149 illustrations and plans, bibliog. Open-weave cloth, 24x20. Vg, dust wrapper. Berlin, Paul Parey, 1963. Germany has developed the concept of the garden exhibition, probably more than any other country. A detailed account of these events from 18th and 19th century origins until the 1960s. The tradition still continues. The next great exhibition is in Koblenz in 2011. [Ref:29326]	£45
ARNOLD T W (translation) The Little Flowers of S Francis of Assisi.Translated from the Italian By T W Arnold MA xv, 135pp plus 29 plates. Cloth, linen spine, top edge gilt, 29x22. Printed on Batchelor's hand-made paper. Neat inscription, boards mottled and rubbed, London, Chatto and Windus for the Florence Press, 1909. 500 copies printed, 475 of which were for sale. This is number 68. Illustrations reproduced from a manuscript in the Laurentian Library, Florence: and a title-page of the life of Saint Francis by Saint Bona ventura, date 1504. [Ref:23470]	£30
ARTS COUNCIL (publ) English Landscape Gardening of the Eighteenth and early Nineteenth Centuries 20pp, 82 numbers, all annotated, introductory essay (7pp) by Dorothy Stroud, brief bibliography. Card covers. 18x11. Some hand-written notes on last page, else fair. London, 1951 Brief guide. Uncommon. [Ref:26607]	£5
AUGUST SCHERLE (publ) Hausgärten.Skizzen und Entwürfe aus dem Wettbewerb der Woche. xviipp plus 119pp incl plans, sketches etc, plus six colour plates. Texts by Fritz Encke, Hermann Muthesius. Boards with coloured oval paste-on label, linen spine, 21x30. Bottom rh corner bumped else vg. Berlin, 1908. Beautiful Arts & Crafts style guide and pattern book for garden architecture. As well as many garden designs, there are examples of furniture, details of suitable plants, garden architecture etc. The lovely colour plates show garden ensembles. Architects featured include Fahrenkamp, Olbricht and Tessenow. Outstanding item. [Ref:28968]	£120
Australia. HARRIS Thistle V Australian Plants for the Garden.A Handbook on the Collection of Australian Trees, Shrubs, Other Flowering Plants, and Ferns. Colour frontis, xiv, 354pp incl plans, illustrations plus 3 colour plates and many half-tones, bibliog. Cloth, 25x20. Vg. Sydney, Angus and Robertson, 1953. [Ref:28256]	£10
BEAZLEY Elisabeth Design and Details of the Space Between Buildings. 230pp inc many b/w photos. Cloth. 26x19. Vg, in good dust wrapper (this designed by Herbert Spencer). London, Architectural Press, 1960. Thorough work on designing such spaces - often quite ignored. A valuable work that has stood the test of time. The author was a notable landscape architect. "A book every architect should digest." [Ref:29045]	£22
BLOMFIELD Reginald & THOMAS F. Inigo The Formal Garden in England xii, 244pp, incl 67 plates. Bibliography. Gilt lettered embossed cloth, 20x14. Spine faded, occasional foxing, cover little marked else vg copy. London, Macmillan, 1892 2nd ed. Influential work on this formal approach to garden design, with fine illustrations by Inigo Thomas. [Ref:27682]	£75
BOARD OF EDUCATION School Playing Fields(Educational Pamphlet No. 80) 36pp. Preface by F. Henry Pelham. Two folding plans in rear pocket. Pamphlet. 18x12. Ministry library copy. Good. London, HMSO (1930) 1939 reprint. Interesting pre-war pamphlet, giving advice and specifications. [Ref:26628]	£10