The art & craft of garden making
Thomas Hayton Mawson (1861 - 1933)
Category
Books
Date
1912
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Wightwick Manor, West Midlands
NT 3032800
Summary
Bibliographic description
x, 404 p., plates : ill. (some col.), plans ; 37 cm (4to). Priced in pencil: £4.4.0. Provenance: Plate of the National Trust Binding: Green cloth, gold monumental emblem, gold-lettered. Spine frayed, joints loose. – Loosely inserted: Mounted, illustrated price list of Messrs Webbs narcissi, or daffodils; Packet: (1) Mounted illustrated advertisement cutting from Country Life, August 6, 1970 for The Wood Estate South Tawton, South Devon (Messrs Cluttons); (2) Newspaper cutting [undated] for ‘Noel’s new house party’ = on the purchase of Wood House by Noel Edmonds, with intent inter alia to restore Mawson’s garden; (3) Typescript introduction for a visit to the gardens of Little Onn Hall [Staffs]; (4) Selected list of B.T. Batsford books on architecture, folded sheet; (5) Printed captions for a ‘Mawson catalogue, 1905’; (6) Daily Telegraph cutting, May 2006 ‘Naked rivalry of Godivas – Wood House [still derelict]
Makers and roles
Thomas Hayton Mawson (1861 - 1933)