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Christopher Thacker
The History of Gardens
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$41.95, paperback
978-0-520-05629-9
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288 pages, 7 x 10 inches, 55 color illustrations, 181 b/w photographs
May 1979, Only available in Only available in the United States, Canada
Categories: Art; Architectural History; Gardening

"Ancient gardens are imaginatively reconstructed through written descriptions and modern ones are depicted in the numerous illustrations that are the chief glory of the book. . . . A fine survey."—Library Journal