Buy this book on-line STUART,DAVID: : The GARDEN TRIUMPHANT - A VICTORIAN LEGACYLONDON.VIKING PENGUIN,1988. ISBN 0670803510.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.NFINE/NFINE.No owner inscrptn but price-clipped dw/dj.
Bright,clean,glossy laminated,colour scenic photographic illustrated dw/dj,with
minimal shelf-wear and negligible creasing
to edges - no nicks or tears present.
Miniscule bumping with reciprocal creasing
to both head+foot of spine/backstrip,no corners bumped.Top edge minimally spotted but clean and fore-edge bright and clean, contents bright,tight and clean also.
Bright,clean green paper-covered bds with bright, stamped silver gilt letters to spine/backstrip and clean,cream antique chain-laid paper with watermark,eps.8vo, 5-3216pp [paginated] includes title-page, contents+illustrations lists,intro,10 chapters,b/w contemporary illus/plans throughout the text,29 colour plates of plants,gardens and landscape views, gazetteer of important gardens,biblio, illus acknowledgements and an index.
In Victorian Britain almost everyone gardened,and for the first time most of them gardened in the same sort of way, whether great magnates with their vast houses set off by vaster parterres or the humblest artisans growing roses and potatoes in their tiny allotments.
Gardening in Victorian Britain and America
created thousands of new businesses, making the new lawnmowers, cast-iron urns,
ceramic edgings,conservatories and rubber boots.It created an infinite number of seedsmen, nurserymen, bedding-plant purveyors, even plant collectors.It discovered huge new markets:ladies sitting
in their drawing-rooms waiting for something to do,gardeners anxious for something new to read or to plant,Sunday strollers enjoying the newly planted public parks and equally elegant cemeteries.The influence of Victorian gardens was immensely powerful and is still with us.Wherever a garden has alternate blue lobelia and white alyssum along its path or is awash with old roses and pinks, even if it has island beds, a filbert walk, bedding begonias, rockeries,
gnomes or terracotta pots with lemon trees, it is still late Victorian.'The Garden Triumphant' gives a unique picture of how this all happened and of how the gardening public lived and thought during the period that truly created 'a nation of gardeners'.
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