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Planting Paradise: Cultivating the Garden, 1501-1900
Stephen Harris
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Description for Planting Paradise: Cultivating the Garden, 1501-1900
Hardcover. This beautifully illustrated book examines the changing role of the garden and its plants in Britain from the early sixteenth to the late nineteenth century. A showcase for rarely seen botanical illustrations from Oxford libraries and herbaria, among the best in the world, this is a fascinating book for plant enthusiasts and gardeners. Num Pages: 152 pages, 51 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 3J; WMB; WMP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 254 x 258 x 19. Weight in Grams: 1062. Cultivating the Garden 1501-1900. 152 pages, 51 colour illustrations. This beautifully illustrated book examines the changing role of the garden and its plants in Britain from the early sixteenth to the late nineteenth century. A showcase for rarely seen botanical illustrations from Oxford libraries and herbaria, among the best in the world, this is a fascinating book for plant enthusiasts and gardeners. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 3J; WMB; WMP. Dimension: 254 x 258 x 19. Weight: 1062.
This beautifully illustrated book examines the changing role of the garden in Britain from the beginning of the sixteenth century to the end of the nineteenth century. Beginning in a world where gardens had long been associated with Paradise, the author charts the influence of the Renaissance belief in direct observation of nature on the development of gardens. He examines the rise of gardens as laboratories for scientific investigation and storehouses for an ever increasing range of novelty plants. While the botanic gardens of early modern Europe had largely been a means of supplying surgeons with medicine, by the ... Read more
This beautifully illustrated book examines the changing role of the garden in Britain from the beginning of the sixteenth century to the end of the nineteenth century. Beginning in a world where gardens had long been associated with Paradise, the author charts the influence of the Renaissance belief in direct observation of nature on the development of gardens. He examines the rise of gardens as laboratories for scientific investigation and storehouses for an ever increasing range of novelty plants. While the botanic gardens of early modern Europe had largely been a means of supplying surgeons with medicine, by the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Bodleian Library, University of Oxford
Number of pages
152
Condition
New
Number of Pages
152
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781851243433
SKU
V9781851243433
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About Stephen Harris
Stephen Harris is Druce Curator of the Oxford University Herbaria, and University Research Lecturer at Green College
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