A lengthy and extraordinarily thorough history of the large park and garden developed in the C18th on the slopes of the Clent Hills during an English gentry’s enthusiasm for landscape modification, creating vistas and scenery conducive to retreat and poetic inspiration.  Under the patronage of Baron George Lyttleton a grand garden in the neo-classical style, with a Palladian bridge, a rotunda, a temple, a large obelisk and a grotto, was created.  Illustrated throughout with photographs, plans and archive documents.  Includes a lengthy bibliography.  Paperback.  152 pages.  (Issued as a special Supplement to The Journal of Garden History).  A slight page wrinkle, otherwise in very good clean condition.  Cat No 4709