The Garden Of Eden

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This book explores the development of the Botanical Garden in Europe and shows how the famous early gardens in Paris, Oxford, Padua, Leyden and Uppsala sought to recreate the Garden of Eden. The jacket has light general marks and indentations and creasing along the upper edge; a section of the glossy surface missing on the lower front right corner. The book itself has red boards and gilt titles. Spine ends bumped. Foxing freckles on the upper text block edge, and on end papers which also have areas of light browning. Former owner's name and date in the front end paper. Written mark in the margin of p21 (indicating a page no.) Numerous b/w plates plus 7 in colour.

14.99 GBP