The living garden. Illustrations by Alison Claire Darke.
London, The Bodley Head 1985.
Reference: 11223
Price: £10 [convert currency]
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8vo. 263 + (1)pp, text ills. Publisher’s cloth, in dustwrapper. David Allibone’s copy.
Elaborate recreation of the history of a Kentish garden from the middle of the sixteenth century onwards. The garden and its successive owners are entirely fictional (something the author nowhere admits), but the period detail is properly researched and convincing.