Book Reviews

Reviews of books on most aspects of gardens and garden history appear in our journal Garden History. The most recent are posted here. The relevant journal number appears after the reviewer’s name.

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January 20th, 2010

William Kent: Architect, Designer, Opportunist

Timothy Mowl London: Jonathan Cape, 2006. 298 pp., £25.00 (hbk), ISBN 0224073508, or, from January 2007, ISBN 9780224073509
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January 20th, 2010

The Architecture of Landscape, 1940–1960

Marc Treib (ed.) Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002. 328 pp., 272 illus. in black-and-white, £39.00, US$59.95 (hbk), ISBN 0812236238
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January 20th, 2010

Garden Archaeology: A Handbook

Chris Currie York: Council for British Archaeology, 2005. vii + 178 pp., 70 black-and-white illus., 8 col. pls, £12.50 (hbk). ISBN 1902771486
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January 20th, 2010

The Gardens and Parks at Hampton Court Palace

Todd Longstaffe-Gowan London: Frances Lincoln, 2005. 208 pp., illus. in colour and black-and-white, £25.00 (hbk), ISBN 0- 7112-2368-8
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January 20th, 2010

The Persian Garden, Echoes of Paradise

Mehdi Khansari, M. Reza Moghtader and Minouch Yavari Washington, DC: Mage, 2004. 176 pp., 240 illus. in colour and black-and-white, £39.95 (pbk), ISBN 0- 934211-75-2
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January 20th, 2010

Green Desire: Imagining Early Modern English Gardens

Rebecca Bushnell Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2003. 198 pp., illus. in black-and-white, £18.95 (hbk), ISBN 0- 8014-4143-9
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January 20th, 2010

Jardin de la Malmaison: Empress Josephine’s Garden

H. Walter Lack (ed.) Munich: Prestel, 2004. 328 pp, 160 illus. in colour and black-and-white. £99.00 (hbk), ISBN 3- 7913-3185-X
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January 20th, 2010

The Tudor House and Garden: Architecture and Landscape in the Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries

Paula Henderson New Haven, CT, and London: Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, Yale Center for British Art, and Yale University Press, 2005. 240 pp., 50 colour. ills., 100 black-and-white illus., £38.00. ISBN 0-300- 10687-4
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January 20th, 2010

Essais de poètique des jardins

Michel Conan Florence: Leo S. Olschki, 2004. 426 pp., illustrated. ISBN 88-222-5358-2
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January 20th, 2010

Historic Gardens Today

Michael Rohde and Rainer Schomann (eds), Historic Gardens Today, trans. Mic Hale and Melany Jacobs-Reynolds (Leipzig: Seemann Henschel, 2004), 296 pp., illus. in colour, €41.10 (hbk), ISBN 3361005787
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January 20th, 2010

Russian Parks and Gardens

Peter Hayden London: Frances Lincoln, 2005. 256 pp., illus. in colour and black-and-white, £35.00, ISBN 0-7112-2430-7
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January 19th, 2010

Paesaggio e letteratura

Michael Jakob Giardini e Paesaggio, Vol. 11 (Florence: Leo S. Olschki, 2005), 244 pp., €24.00. ISBN 882225399X
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January 19th, 2010

Topographical Stories: Studies in Landscape and Architecture

David Leatherbarrow Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004. 288 pp., 95 illus. in black-and-white, £36.00 (hbk), ISBN 0812238095
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January 19th, 2010

Le Jardin de Plaisir

André Mollet Stockholm, 1651. a new 2-vol. edn with commentary (Uppsala: Elina Antell, 2006)
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January 19th, 2010

Description of the Idea and General-Plan for an English Park – written during the years 1811 and 1812 by Fredrik Magnus Piper

Fredrik Magnus Piper 2 vols, edited by Rebecka Millhagen, Magnus Olausson and John Harris (Stockholm: Byggförlaget in collaboration with the Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts, 2004), 334 pp., illus. in colour and black-and-white, £82.00 (hbk), ISBN 91-7988-259-5
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