James Bolton & Philip de Bay, introduction by Monty Don
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Authors de Bay and Bolton have plundered the Stapleton collection to provide us with 400 jam-packed pages of wonderful illustrations which more than live up to the title as they take us on an extended journey through arcades, arches, canopies, gateways and gatehouses, via allees, avenues, aquaducts, bridges, labyrinths, mazes and staircases, past canals, cascades, fountains, lakes, ponds, pools, rills, rivers and waterfalls into amphitheatres, bowling greens, knot gardens, and parterres with their columns, obelisks, sphinxes, statues and urns, where we can amuse ourselves on carousels, ferris wheels, helter-skelters, see-saws and swings, before we arrive at an array of alcoves, arbours, bath-houses, belvederes, bird cages, boat-houses, chapels, cottages, gazebos, hermitages, hot-houses, glass-houses, green-houses, gloriettes, loggias, kiosks, observatories, orangeries, pagodas, pavilions, temples and tents in a variety of styles, Baroque, Chinese, Classical, Dutch, Egyptian, French, German, Gothic, Hindoo, Japanese, or Moorish.
This is a truly fabulous treasury of amusing and inspiring garden images and, at such a modest price, it is quite irresistible. - review by Stewart Grimshaw
Authors de Bay and Bolton have plundered the Stapleton collection to provide us with 400 jam-packed pages of wonderful illustrations which more than live up to the title as they take us on an extended journey through arcades, arches, canopies, gateways and gatehouses, via allees, avenues, aquaducts, bridges, labyrinths, mazes and staircases, past canals, cascades, fountains, lakes, ponds, pools, rills, rivers and waterfalls into amphitheatres, bowling greens, knot gardens, and parterres with their columns, obelisks, sphinxes, statues and urns, where we can amuse ourselves on carousels, ferris wheels, helter-skelters, see-saws and swings, before we arrive at an array of alcoves, arbours, bath-houses, belvederes, bird cages, boat-houses, chapels, cottages, gazebos, hermitages, hot-houses, glass-houses, green-houses, gloriettes, loggias, kiosks, observatories, orangeries, pagodas, pavilions, temples and tents in a variety of styles, Baroque, Chinese, Classical, Dutch, Egyptian, French, German, Gothic, Hindoo, Japanese, or Moorish. 
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