The formal garden in England
Author(s)
Bibliographic Information
The formal garden in England
(Cambridge library collection, Art and architecture)
Cambridge University Press, 2013
- : paperback
Available at 1 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Reprint. Originally published: London : Macmillan , 1892
"This digitally printed version 2013"--T.p. verso
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
First published in 1892, this work by the architect Reginald Theodore Blomfield (1856-1942), illustrated by Francis Inigo Thomas (1865-1950), uses historical evidence to vindicate a classical approach to garden design, in which a house and its surroundings are kept in harmony. It is a response to the work of the gardener and journalist William Robinson (1838-1935), who had written vehemently in favour of romantic, naturalistic gardens. Closely linked to the burgeoning Arts and Crafts movement as secretary to the Art-Workers' Guild under William Morris' presidency, Blomfield had developed a theory of garden design which held that it should be a reflection of architectural order: honest, vernacular simplicity as opposed to the 'wild garden'. Illustrative of the contemporary debate between architects and plantsmen, this instructive text, reissued in its second edition of 1892, captures a moment in this developing relationship in the years before Edwin Lutyens and Gertrude Jekyll gave it new harmony.
Table of Contents
- Preface to second edition
- Preface to first edition
- 1. The formal method and the landscape gardener
- 2. The formal garden in England
- 3. The formal garden (cont.)
- 4. The end of the formal garden and the landscape school
- 5. The courts, terraces, walks
- 6. Knots, parterres, grass-work, mounts, bowling-greens, theatres
- 7. Fish-ponds, pleaching, arbours, galleries, hedges, palisades, groves
- 8. Garden architecture
- 9. Garden architecture (cont.)
- 10. Conclusion
- Appendices 1-3
- Index.
by "Nielsen BookData"