Gardens Of Court And Country

Author : David Jacques
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300222017
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gardens of Court and Country written by David Jacques and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2017-01-01 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gardens of Court and Country provides the first comprehensive overview of the development of the English formal garden from 1630 to 1730. Often overshadowed by the English landscape garden that became fashionable later in the 18th century, English formal gardens of the 17th century displayed important design innovations that reflected a broad rethinking of how gardens functioned within society. With insights into how the Protestant nobility planned and used their formal gardens, the domestication of the lawn, and the transformation of gardens into large rustic parks, David Jacques explores the ways forecourts, flower gardens, bowling greens, cascades, and more were created and reimagined over time. This handsome volume includes 300 illustrations - including plans, engravings, and paintings - that bring lost and forgotten gardens back to life.

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Total Pages : 1030 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Boyle's court and country guide written by and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 1030 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 1050 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book BOYLE'S FASHIONABLE COURT AND COUNTRY GUIDE, AND TOWN VISITING DIRECTORY CORRECTED FOR 1857 written by and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 1050 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : T. H. S. Escott
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Social Transformations of the Victorian Age: A Survey of Court and Country written by T. H. S. Escott and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-11-26 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Social Transformations of the Victorian Age: A Survey of Court and Country" by T. H. S. Escott offers an engaging exploration of the societal changes and evolutions during the Victorian era. Escott's keen observations provide a comprehensive look into the cultural, political, and economic shifts that shaped the Victorian age. This insightful survey delves into the lives of both the aristocracy and common people, shedding light on the fascinating dynamics that influenced the course of history.

Author : Clare Hickman
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300236107
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Doctor's Garden written by Clare Hickman and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A richly illustrated exploration of how late Georgian gardens associated with medical practitioners advanced science, education, and agricultural experimentation As Britain grew into an ever-expanding empire during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, new and exotic botanical specimens began to arrive within the nation's public and private spaces. Gardens became sites not just of leisure, sport, and aesthetic enjoyment, but also of scientific inquiry and knowledge dissemination. Medical practitioners used their botanical training to capitalize on the growing fashion for botanical collecting and agricultural experimentation in institutional, semipublic, and private gardens across Britain. This book highlights the role of these medical practitioners in the changing use of gardens in the late Georgian period, marked by a fluidity among the ideas of farm, laboratory, museum, and garden. Placing these activities within a wider framework of fashionable, scientific, and economic interests of the time, historian Clare Hickman argues that gardens shifted from predominately static places of enjoyment to key gathering places for improvement, knowledge sharing, and scientific exploration.

Author : Thomas Escott
Publisher : Litres
ISBN 13 : 5040760353
Total Pages : 545 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Social Transformations of the Victorian Age: A Survey of Court and Country written by Thomas Escott and published by Litres. This book was released on 2021-03-16 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Social Transformations of the Victorian Age: A Survey of Court and Country" by T. H. S. Escott. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

Author : Roderick Floud
Publisher : Pantheon
ISBN 13 : 1101871040
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book England's Magnificent Gardens written by Roderick Floud and published by Pantheon. This book was released on 2021-06-15 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An altogether different kind of book on English gardens—the first of its kind—a look at the history of England’s magnificent gardens as a history of Britain itself, from the seventeenth-century gardens of Charles II to those of Prince Charles today. In this rich, revelatory history, Sir Roderick Floud, one of Britain’s preeminent economic historians, writes that gardens have been created in Britain since Roman times but that their true growth began in the seventeenth century; by the eighteenth century, nurseries in London took up 100 acres, with ten million plants (!) that were worth more than all of the nurseries in France combined. Floud’s book takes us through more than three centuries of English history as he writes of the kings, queens, and princes whose garden obsessions changed the landscape of England itself, from Stuart, Georgian, and Victorian England to today’s Windsors. Here are William and Mary, who brought Dutch gardens and bulbs to Britain; William, who twice had his entire garden lowered in order to see the river from his apartments; and his successor, Queen Anne, who, like many others since, vowed to spend little on her gardens and instead spent millions. Floud also writes of Frederick, Prince of Wales, the founder of Kew Gardens, who spent more than $40,000 on a single twenty-five-foot tulip tree for Carlton House; Queen Victoria, who built the largest, most advanced and most efficient kitchen garden in Britain; and Prince Charles, who created and designed the gardens of Highgrove, inspired by his boyhood memories of his grandmother’s gardens. We see Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, who created a magnificent garden at Blenheim Palace, only to tear it apart and build a greater one; Deborah, Duchess of Devonshire, the savior of Chatsworth’s 100-acre garden in the midst of its 35,000 acres; and the gardens of lesser mortals, among them Gertrude Jekyll and Vita Sackville-West, both notable garden designers and writers. We see the designers of royal estates—among them, Henry Wise, William Kent, Humphrey Repton, and the greatest of all English gardeners, “Capability” Brown, who created the 150-acre lake of Blenheim Palace, earned millions annually, and designed more than 170 parks, many still in existence today. We learn how gardening became a major catalyst for innovation (central heating came from experiments to heat greenhouses with hot-water pipes); how the new iron industry of industrializing Britain supplied a myriad of tools (mowers, pumps, and the boilers that heated the greenhouses); and, finally, Floud explores how gardening became an enormous industry as well as an art form in Britain, and by the nineteenth century was unrivaled anywhere in the world.

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Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Journal of Horticulture, Cottage Gardener and Country Gentlemen written by and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 976 pages
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Download or read book Country Life written by and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 976 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 1188 pages
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Download or read book Gardening Illustrated for Town & Country written by and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 1188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: