Richard Woods (1715-1793): Master of the Pleasure Garden

A magisterial study. [includes] an in-depth analysis of Woods's techniques and a detailed gazetteer of his gardens. [...] The book is beautifully produced and a pleasure to handle. * HISTORIC GARDENS REVIEW * This is an important study, as it presents the demise of both the eighteenth-century Arcadian Garden and also Capability Brown's ideal parkscapes. [...] Fiona Cowell's text is extremely scholarly, and the analytical narrative is accompanied by an informative gazetteer of all Woods' commissions. [A] ground-breaking study. * LANDSCAPE HISTORY * This study uniquely places Woods in the social and economic constraints of the eighteenth century as a Catholic living in Protestant England. [...] This book will interest all who are interested in the development of the English landscape at a pivotal point in British history. * CURRENT BOOKS ON GARDENING AND BOTANY * An excellent study. [...] Cowell's learned book is particularly informative about the nuts and bolts of landscape gardening in eighteenth-century England. * TLS * Impeccably researched. Fiona Cowell has done a sterling job of rehabilitating [Woods] and his oeuvre. * HISTORIC HOUSE * [This] excellent book does justice to one who has for too long been considered a mere imitator of his pre-eminent rival. The Boydell Press is also to be congratulated on this, the second book in its enterprising 'garden and landscape history' series, under the general editorship of Tom Williamson. * COUNTRY LIFE *