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Woburn Abbey: The Park and Gardens by Duchess of Bedford Hardback Book The Fast
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Item specifics
- Condition
- ISBN
- 191025813X
- EAN
- 9781910258132
- Date of Publication
- 2016-05-19
- Publication Name
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- Type
- Hardback
- Release Title
- Woburn Abbey: The Park and Gardens
- Artist
- Duchess of Bedford
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Pimpernel Press
ISBN-10
191025813X
ISBN-13
9781910258132
eBay Product ID (ePID)
17038777898
Product Key Features
Book Title
Woburn Abbey Park and Gardens
Number of Pages
240 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2016
Topic
Landscape, Europe / Western
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Gardening, History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.3 in
Item Weight
47.6 Oz
Item Length
10.6 in
Item Width
8.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2016-387806
Dewey Edition
23
Dewey Decimal
712.6/094256
Synopsis
The park and gardens at Woburn Abbey tell a fascinating story, and one that illuminates the history of English landscaping from the sixteenth century to the present day. Drawing on the enormous quantity of material available in the Woburn archives, as well as the historic images and details preserved in the art in the Abbey itself, this book describes how the park and gardens developed, following wider trends in landscaping as well as the individual tastes of the successive dukes and duchesses. It also places the significant developments in the park and gardens in the context of the other gardens built at the time. The dukes (and before them the earls) of Bedford have been in possession of Woburn Abbey since 1540. Over the centuries, in all the major periods of English landscaping, gardens have been built at Woburn which not only reflect the styles of their times, but also throw light on the changing responses to the natural landscape which initiated those changes in style. Almost all of the important figures in English landscaping - from Isaac de Caus to George London and Henry Wise, Charles Bridgeman and Humphry Repton - worked for the Bedford family at one time or another. In our own time, a ten-year programme of restoration of Repton's Pleasure Gardens initiated by the present Duchess is under way. When this is finished, in 2018, the result will be the most complete Repton pleasure grounds anywhere in the world. In this book Keir Davidson weaves specific and wider themes together in a way that brings the whole enthralling story to life, engaging the reader with historic gardens that are not simply part of a lost past, but can be experienced today., Drawing on the enormous quantity of material available in the Woburn Archives, as well as the historic images and details preserved in the art in the Abbey itself, this book describes how the park and gardens developed, following wider trends in landscaping as well as the individual tastes of the successive dukes and duchesses. It also places the significant developments in the park and gardens in the context of the other gardens built at the time. Almost all of the important figures in English landscaping--from Isaac de Caus to George London and Henry Wise, Charles Bridgeman, and Humphry Repton--worked for the Bedford family at one time or another. In our own time, a 10-year program of restoration of Repton's Pleasure Gardens initiated by the present Duchess is under way. When this is finished, in 2018, the result will be the most complete Repton pleasure grounds anywhere in the world. In this book Keir Davidson weaves specific and wider themes together in a way that brings the whole enthralling story to life, engaging the reader with historic gardens that are not simply part of a lost past, but can be experienced today.
LC Classification Number
SB470.55
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