Garden-Craft Old and New

London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. , 1895. Cloth. Very Good. 9" by 5.5". Not Stated . A bright new edition of John D Sedding's study of garden design. A new edition of this work. Illustrated with nine full page plates. Collated, complete. A history of garden design with chapters on garden theory and art, historical and comparative sketches, landscape gardening, technics of gardening, and more. Written by JD Sedding, influential English church architect of the Art and Crafts movement, known for his lecture 'The Architectural Treatment of Gardens' in 1889 which was instrumental in the revival of Jacobean features such as terraces, covered walks, bowling greens, &c.  From the library of Doctor Malcolm Higgs, an important architectural historian who worked as an assistant architect to Stirling & Gowan, working on their particularly renowned Leicester University Engineering Laboratory. During his long career he taught at the University of Edinburgh School of Architecture, Canterbury School of Architecture, and University of Nottingham. Later in his life he was the Vice-President and Honorary Librarian of the Royal Institute of British Architects, and contributed and edited the "Journal of Architecture". In the original publisher's full cloth binding. Externally very smart with light wear, bumped to head and tail of spine and extremities, boards lightly marked with faint damp to head and tail of spine. Previous ownership inscription to front free endpaper, undated. Internally, firmly bound. Light mark to front free endpaper, pages otherwise generally bright and clean. Very Good