On Modern Gardening
Horace Walpole
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Paperback. .
"'Walpole's achievement has to be saluted all the more when it is realized that single-handedly he determined (or distorted) the writing of landscape architecture history to this day' John Dixon Hunt in Greater Perfection: the practice of garden theory"
By a mile, this is the most brilliant and most influential essay ever written on English garden history. For two centuries it mapped the whole landscape of the subject. However, the author was partial in the highest degree. Horace Walpole believed in progress, in modernisation, and the superiority of everything English to almost everything that had gone before. He had a ... Read more
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Publisher
Pallas Athene Publishers United Kingdom
Number of pages
64
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Condition
New
Weight
62g
Number of Pages
64
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781873429839
SKU
V9781873429839
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Usually ships in 4 to 8 working days
Ref
99-3
About Horace Walpole
Horace Walpole was partial in the highest degree. As the son of England's first Whig prime minister (Sir Robert Walpole) it would be surprising if he were otherwise. The essay's title gives the first clue: Horace Walpole believed in progress, in modernisation and the superiority of everything English to almost everything that had gone before. He had a special dislike ... Read more
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"Walpole's achievement has to be saluted all the more when it is realized that single-handedly he determined (or distorted) the writing of landscape architecture history to this day' John Dixon Hunt in Greater Perfection: the practice of garden theory"