A Garden Herbal By Anthony Gardiner
A Garden Herbal (Premium Collectible Hardcover Edition)
A Full-Colour Step-by-Step Design, Cultivation, and Landscaping Guide to Regional and Structural Herb Gardens
A Full-Colour Step-by-Step Design, Cultivation, and Landscaping Guide to Regional and Structural Herb Gardens
Bibliographic Specifications
- Title: A Garden Herbal
- Author: Anthony Gardiner
- Publisher: The Promotional Reprint Company Ltd., London
- Publication Date: 1995
- ISBN-10: 1856483223
- ISBN-13: 9781856483223
- Edition Details: First Edition thus (1995 Imprint Release). A pristine, highly sought-after single-volume design manual specifically compiled for estate landscape architects and cottage horticulturists.
- Binding: Original publisher's premium heavy-gauge pictorial laminated hardboards, issued without a dust jacket.
- Physical Format: Quarto (4to), 128 pages. Lavishly supplemented with hundreds of vivid full-colour studio photographs, spatial architectural grid maps, structural timber blueprints, and planting charts.
- Language: English
Official Condition Report
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The Book: Very Good Plus (VG+)
- Exterior Boards: The original publisher's pictorial laminated hardboards are structurally straight, flat, solid, and square. The surface gloss is exceptionally bright and crisp, presenting only very slight, microscopic handling or storage shelf-friction along the base edges, completely consistent with careful domestic shelving. The spine face is entirely unbroken, uncreased, firm, and undamaged.
- Interior: The structural text block binding, heavy page signatures, and inner hinges are in excellent, immaculate condition. The internal leaves, structural landscaping grids, and glossy colour plates are remarkably clean, flat, and bright. Completely free from previous owner ink signatures, gift presentation notes, modern highlighting, text underscores, dog-ears, or dealer pencil marks.
- The Dust Jacket: Not Applicable (As Issued)
Synopsis & Historical Value
First released in 1995 by The Promotional Reprint Company, Anthony Gardiner's A Garden Herbal stands as a masterfully executed classic that bridges the gap between raw botanical science and domestic landscape design. This comprehensive, step-by-step visual handbook was explicitly designed to teach readers how to plan, cultivate, and construct a highly personalized, functional garden space from the ground up.
The work guides the gardener through every stage of development, offering clear instructions on choosing a thematic landscape style, prepping specialized soils, growing varieties of herbs directly from seed, and utilizing structural elements—such as stone walls, timber fences, organic hedges, and decorative arbors—to the absolute best spatial effect. Gardiner breaks down a magnificent array of classic historical and practical garden styles, delivering deep-dive blueprints for creating medicinal herb plots, paradise sanctuaries, aromatic pathways, formal knot patterns, traditional cottage settings, kitchen herb sections, and specialized bee and butterfly borders. Rich with timeless cultivation wisdom and pristine visual production, this well-maintained volume remains an essential workbook for landscape designers, home extensionists, and antiquarian book collectors nationwide.
Author Profile: Anthony Gardiner
Anthony Gardiner is a distinguished British horticulturist, landscape designer, and specialized botanical writer whose multi-decade career has focused on reviving historical European and cottage garden traditions. Highly accomplished in historical garden reconstruction and organic cultivation methodologies, Gardiner is celebrated for his structural approach to landscape layout, which pairs architectural woodwork with functional, aromatic flora. His clear, highly logical, and pragmatic prose style stripped the intimidating technical jargon from garden design, making his definitive handbooks standard reference points across international design schools, agricultural colleges, and private collectors alike
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