| Woburn Abbey: The Park & Gardens Contributor(s): Davidson, Keir (Author) |
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ISBN: 191025813X ISBN-13: 9781910258132 Publisher: Pimpernel Press OUR PRICE: $58.50 Product Type: Hardcover Published: August 2016 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Gardening | Landscape - History | Western Europe - General |
| Physical Information: 1.3" H x 8.3" W x 10.7" (2.95 lbs) 240 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Western Europe |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |