Author: John Dixon Hunt; Peter Willis
Title: The Genius of the Place : The English Landscape Garden, 1620-1820
Description: London, Paul Elek, 1975. First edition. Cloth. An impressive study, combining examples from art and literature, celebrating the English landscape garden from the 17th to the 19th centuries. The first edition of this work in the publisher's original cloth binding, with the original unclipped dust wrapper. A fascinating and comprehensive study of the English landscape garden from 1620 to 1820, using examples from writers such as Francis Bacon and Jane Austen, and artists such as Thomas Gainsborough and Claude Lorrain, to describe the various styles in detail. Illustrated throughout with engravings and reproductions of paintings. 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 publisher's original cloth binding, with original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, cloth and dust wrapper are both in excellent condition. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean. Fine . Ill.: Claude Lorrain; Thomas Gainsborough; John Wootton; et al. Fine/Fine.

Keywords: Gardening Landscape gardens Landed gentry British history Landscape gardens Claude Lorrain; Thomas Gainsborough; John Wootton; et al.


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