Buy this book on-line WHEELER, DAVID & DORRELL, SIMON: : OVER THE HILLS FROM BROADWAY: Images of Cotswold GardensUK.THRUPP,GLOS.ALAN SUTTON PUBLISHING LTD.,1991., WHEELER,DAVID & DORRELL,SIMON: ISBN 0862997933.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj. Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated, colour pictorial artwork,by Simon Dorrell, illustrated dw/dj,panels with blue lettering and blue+black lettering to spine/backstrip; with negligible shelf- wear or creasing to edges and corners - no major nicks or tears present.Top front and both upper+lower corners of dw/dj with tiny nicks and light rubbing - each with very miniscule loss.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean, solid and sound - virtually pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread - apart from my own collation.Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,publisher's original plain green cloth boards with bright,crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate b/w regional map illustrated endpapers.UK,Qrto HB+dw/dj,1st edn,v-xixpp +1-226pp [paginated] includes contents list/table,a foreword by Rosemary Verey,an introduction by David Wheeler,author's note,8 chapters,Interludes I+IV comprising 8,13,11 and 9 garden descriptions respectively,profuse b/w+colour illustrations by Simon Dorrell interspersed throughout the text and the book,a bibliography,Artist's notes+picture dimensions,and an index.Plus [unpaginated] half-title with dedication to it's reverse,title page and 2pp blanks at the rear of the book.
The Cotswold Hills of Gloucestershire and Oxfordshire are among the most beautiful in England.The towns and villages are loved throughout the world - Chipping Campden,Sapperton and Tetbury; Painswick, Burford and Minchinhampton: each makes its own signal and calls like a siren to serious travellers and day-trippers alike. The stone buildings,from castle to manor to town house to cottage,display some of man's best domestic architecture.Their gardens are numerous and diverse,popular and secret.Hidcote,Snowshill,Kiftsgate, Rodmarton and Barnsley are words as familiar to garden visitors from San Francisco and Sydney as they are to the residents of Cheltenham and Cirencester.
This book records the year-long Cotswold wanderings of two dedicated gardeners - a writer and a painter.David Wheeler and Simon Dorrell's images - sometimes striking,sometimes subtle - are revealed on every page.Pen and brush have worked alongside each other to create fresh and stimulating views of the famous gardens while offering tantalising glimpses of unknown places.Together David and Simon walked the cinder paths of a clergyman's town garden,and edged themselves between the cabbage-lined rows around a hilltop cottage.They spoke to celebrated plantsmen,rosarians and designers.They listened to experienced long-serving head gardeners and shared the enthusiasms of the late 20thC's newest garden-makers.They tramped through groves of rare trees and sniffed their way between a tangle of roses.They observed the skills of long-gone craftsmen and roamed the flowery acres at Highgrove with the Prince of Wales.
This collection of jewel-like paintings and crisply-detailed drawings revives the artist's view of gardens and garden-making.A few of the forty-nine chosen gardens can be seen on almost any day, others open to the public only once or twice in a season.A few remain forever closed to outside eyes.To open the covers of this book is to open all the garden gates.
David Wheeler is the founder,proprietor and editor of 'Hortus',the celebrated quarterly garden journal published from his home in mid-Wales.
Simon Dorrell is Art Editor of 'Hortus'. He is a painter of English and Welsh landscape,of gardens,architecture and interiors.
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