Hill, Octavia.
House Property and its Management: Some Papers on the Methods of Management Introduced by Miss Octavia Hill and Adapted to Modern Conditions
(George Allen & Unwin, 1921).
Intro. by I. G. Gibbon. Presented by M.M. Jeffery and Edith Neville. Scarce original. Hardback. Pages and boards browned with age, spine split a little at top end, and internally at binding, else a good copy. 96pp. Order No. NSBK-C6430
Keywords: housing, Octavia Hill, dwellings, philanthropy, the poor, poverty, Victorian, England, tenants, town planning, urban history, Britain, England, British, English, history, house property, house management, Octavia Hill's essays, nineteenth century, papers, works, cottages, model dwellings, letters to fellow workers, women managers, Amsterdam, municipal, garden cities, period sources, contemporary comment
Price £30.00.
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Watkins, Micky.
Henrietta Barnett in Whitechapel: Her First Fifty Years
(Micky Watkins, 2005).
Paperback. Very good. 160pp. Order No. NSBK-C15630
Keywords: 9780954979805, Henrietta Barnett, Octavia Hill, social history, housing, biography, slums, garden suburbs, garden cities
Price £25.00.
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Hill, Octavia.
Our Common Land:
(Macmillan, 1877).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and markings, some wear to spine, spine ends, edges and corners. Cloth a little marked / rubbed -else good / solid. vi + 206pp. Order No. NSBK-C6431
Keywords: B001P1SGF4, housing, Octavia Hill, dwellings, philanthropy, the poor, poverty, Victorian, England, town planning, urban history, open spaces, countryside, Britain, England, British, English, history, Octavia Hill's essays, nineteenth century, papers, works, garden cities, period sources, contemporary comment, district visiting, volunteer visitors, commons, charity, charities, COS, C.O.S., Charity Organisation Society
Price £120.00.
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Thacker, Christopher.
England's Historic Gardens: An Illustrated Account of One Nation's Garden Heritage
(McGraw-Hill Ruerson, 1989).
Foreword by Lord Montagu Beaulieu. Photographs by John Bethell. Hardback. Oversized book, very good in dustwrapper. 160pp. Order No. NSBK-A11888
Keywords: 0747201102, gardens, gardening, horticulture, heritage, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, twentieth century, 20th
Price £7.00.
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Colborn, Nigel.
The Container Garden:
(Conran Octopus, 1990).
Photographs by Marijke Heuff. Hardback. Very good in slightly creased dustwrapper. 160pp. Order No. NSBK-A5444
Keywords: 1850292450, Marijke Heuff, Nigel Colburn, garden, gardening, gardeners, garden history, horticulture, horticulturists, flowers, plants, terraces, roof gardens, pots, tubs, hanging baskets, trees, fruit, shrubs, herbs, Britain, British
Price £10.00.
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Norman, Sue and Roger, et al.
The Small Garden:
(Parragon, 1999).
Paperback. Very good+. 224pp. Order No. NSBK-A13382
Keywords: 0752525581, small garden, gardens, gardening, horticulture, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK
Price £7.00.
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Anon, .
Beauties and Wonders of Vegetable Life: Or, Rambles in Parks, Forests, Conservatories, Orchards, Gardens, Fields and Heaths
(The Religious Tract Soc, n.d., Victorian).
With numerous illustrations. Hardback. Some foxing, some pages loosening at binding, cloth lightly rubbed, otherwise good. vi + 276pp. Order No. NSBK-A2869
Keywords: flora, vegetable, botany, walking, ramble, nature, natural world, horticulture, horticultural, gardens, garden, gardening, parks, park, forest, forests, wood, woodland, woods, trees, agrarian, agriculture, orchard, orchards, field, fields, heath, heaths
Price £4.00.
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Schwarz, Hans.
Painting in Towns and Cities:
(Studio Vista, 1980).
Paperback. Light edge wear, otherwise good. 104pp. Order No. NSBK-A14345
Keywords: 0289709733, painting, towns, cities, city, town, urban, art, oils, drawings
Price £5.00.
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Gorer, Richard.
The Flower Garden in England:
(B. T. Batsford, 1975).
Published in Association with the Royal Horticultural Society. Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, lacks fly leaf, good in dustwrapper. pp. Order No. NSBK-A5076
Keywords: 0713428589, flower garden, horticulture, England, English, history, Britain, British, garden, gardeners, flower garden, exotics, Elizabethan, Jacobean
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Merriman, John M., ed.
French Cities in the Nineteenth Century:
(Holmes & Meier, 1981).
Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper. 304pp. Order No. NSBK-A3629
Keywords: 0841904642, France, French, cities, urban, history, towns, nineteenth century, Second Empire, Napoleon III, municipal, suburbs, urbanisation, city, cities, settlement, demography
Price £8.50.
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