CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 9/21/2021

A new facsimile edition of the classic Victorian gardening guide, 'The Art and Craft of Garden Making'

Featured spreads are from Bökforlaget Stolpe’s gorgeous new facsimile of Victorian British garden designer, landscape architect and town planner Thomas Hayton Mawson’s 1900 gardening guide, The Art and Craft of Garden Making, the most coveted edition of which was published in 1926. Featuring six color and 544 black-and-white reproductions, this new, highly collectible edition is a facsimile of that 440-page, clothbound fifth edition—complete with gold detailing. Chapter topics range from “Choice of Site and its Treatment” to the “Decorative Treatment of Water and Rock” and “Wall and Bog Gardens,” while examples of garden design include gardens to semi-detached houses, a good-sized suburban residence, and an ancestral domain. “Gardens of Exceptional Kinds” include a Lake District garden, a garden in granite, a garden to a mountain home and a garden to a classic renaissance mansion. An exquisite gift for any garden lover.