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21 BROOKE, E. Adveno. The Gardens of
England. London: T. Maclean, [1857] english gardens in full flower
First edition. A rare large format work providing superb illustrations of English country house gardens in Victorian times, and giving an insight into the taste of the great estate owners. Many of the gardens were begun in earlier times, but most feature later additions, sometimes in the Italian style, which proved a major attraction for Brooke. The magnificent gardens depicted include those at Trentham Park (laid out by Capability Brown with additions by Charles Barry in the 1840s), Enville Hall (gardens extended in the mid-19th century and celebrated for its fountains, its floral display, and its domed and turreted oriental palace of a conservatory), Bowood House (originally laid out by Brown but with later Italianate terraces added), Alton Towers (“The work of a morbid imagination joined to the command of unlimited resources” – J. C. Loudon), Elvaston Castle (famous for its splendid arboretum), Shrublands Hall (Italianate terraces by Barry), Woburn Abbey (a Repton masterpiece), Holkham House (William Kent– Capability Brown, with extensive 1850s additions
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including a parterre with the Earl of Leicester’s initials in box, and a pair of flower beds in a Louis XIV pattern accompanying a fountain representing St George and the dragon), Castle Howard (whose modern additions included a new parterre using yew hedges to frame the lawns and the Triton Fountain taken from the Great Exhibition), and many others. Brooke was an exhibitor at the Royal Academy and British Institution in the period 1853–64.
Folio. Later green half morocco, lettering and decorations to spine in gilt, red morocco label to spine. Housed in a custom black cloth slipcase. Title-page and 25 lithographed plates printed in colours and finished by hand, heightened with gum arabic, lithographed dedication leaf, letterpress text, 16 lithographed vignettes on india paper pasted into text. Occasional short tears, loss to corner of one plate not affecting image, some light finger-soiling; else a fine and vibrant copy. ¶ Abbey, Scenery 392. £30,000 [152888]
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