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palladio.gif (7344 bytes) The Four Books on Architecture by Andrea Palladio, Robert Tavernor (Translator), Richard Schofield (Translator), Richard Scholfield (Translator)

The best of classical architecture, through the lens of Renaissance Italy

 

Classical Architecture; The Poetics of Order by Alexander Tzonis, Liane Lefaivre (Contributor)

An overview of the principals of classical architecture with many good illustrations

 

Amazon The Fate of the English Country House
by David Littlejohn

How do you manage to keep a real English Country House from falling down?

Life in the English Country House: A Social and Architectural History by Mark Girouard

Insights into the world of the Great Houses of England

The Flowering of the Landscape Garden : English Pleasure Grounds 1720-1800 by Mark Laird

A comprehensive new look at the design of 18th-century British landscape gardens with a focus on flowers and ornamental shrubberies

 

genuis of the place.gif (15012 bytes) The Genius of the Place : The English Landscape Garden, 1620-1820
by John D. Hunt (Editor), Peter Willis (Editor)

Selections of important contemporary writings on the subject of landscape

Charleston Kedding: A History of Kitchen Gardening by Susan Campbell

A fictional garden described over time, lavishly illustrated

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