The Gardens of Venice and the Veneto draws together an amazing variety of spellbinding garden retreats, from monastery gardens quietly cultivated in the islands of the lagoon to magnificent villas on the Brenta Canal, and baroque masterpieces in the hills beyond. Highlights include an eerie Masonic garden complete with gothic chapel and cavernous grottoes, a pleasure garden made for his workers by a benevolent nineteenth-century industrialist, and a flower-filled delight by the banks of the Grand Canal. This is a book of ...
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The Gardens of Venice and the Veneto draws together an amazing variety of spellbinding garden retreats, from monastery gardens quietly cultivated in the islands of the lagoon to magnificent villas on the Brenta Canal, and baroque masterpieces in the hills beyond. Highlights include an eerie Masonic garden complete with gothic chapel and cavernous grottoes, a pleasure garden made for his workers by a benevolent nineteenth-century industrialist, and a flower-filled delight by the banks of the Grand Canal. This is a book of ravishing images and intriguing stories. The garden behind Henry James' s Aspern Papers is here, along with the garden which so beguiled Margaret Symonds, the young English author of Days Spent on a Doge' s Farm. With an emphasis on gardens that can be visited, longtime resident Jenny Condie elucidates the dynastic triumphs, the reversals of fortune, and the shifts in taste and influence which have shaped these extraordinary places.
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Good Condition in Good jacket. 9780711234048. Gardening Books. VG-/Good 1st ed 2013 Frances Lincoln hardback, unclipped DJ, profusely illustrated very substantial volume. Some tears around top of jacket spine, area of surface wear and indents to top of spine board beneath, bright and unmarked throughout. Size: 10.13 x 1 x 12 inches. 208 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Gardening; Gardening Books; ISBN: 0711234043. ISBN/EAN: 9780711234048. Dewey Code: 712.09453. The photos provided are of our own book, further photos may be arranged upon request. Inventory No: 087527.
