Author: Peter Willis [ed.]
Title: Furor Hortensis: Essays on the History of the English Landscape Garden in Memory of Hf Clark
Description: Edinburgh, Elysium Press, 1974. First edition. Cloth. A bright first limited edition of this collection of essays dedicated to the English landscape garden in memory of HF Clark. The first edition of this work, limited to one thousand unnumbered copies printed. H F Clark was a lecturer of Architecture at the University of Edinburgh, architect, and designer. He contributed to his field a book titled 'The English Landscape Garden.'The present volume contains a series of essays on the history of the English landscape garden by William Alvis Brogden, William Spink, Peter Wilis, George Clarke, &c. Edited by Peter Willis. With an introduction by Sir Robert H Matthew and biographical notices by Patrick Nuttgens and Geoffrey Jellicoe. Illustrated with a frontispiece and further plates in black and white.  From the library of Doctor Malcolm Higgs, an important architectural historian who worked as an assistant architect to Stirling & Gowan, working on their particularly renowned Leicester University Engineering Laboratory. During his long career he taught at the University of Edinburgh School of Architecture, Canterbury School of Architecture, and University of Nottingham. Later in his life he was the Vice-President and Honorary Librarian of the Royal Institute of British Architects, and contributed and edited the "Journal of Architecture". In the original publisher's duo cloth binding. Externally excellent with minor shelf wear, faint mark to front board. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: Not Stated. Very Good Indeed .

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