Main entry:

Hoyles, Martin.

Title & Author:

Gardeners delight : gardening books from 1560 to 1960 / Martin Hoyles.

Publication:

London ; Boulder, Colo. : Pluto Press, 1994.

Description:

214 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 196-209) and index.
Introduction, page 1 -- 1. To please the common sort : the readership of gardening books, page 6 -- 2. Wrung out of the earth : the knowledge and experience of gardening writers, page 35 -- 3. Purity or pot-pourri : variety of style in gardening literature, page 54 -- 4. Perfect happiness : forms of pleasure in gardening, page 100 -- 5. Adam and Eve : religion and morality in gardening literature, page 123 -- 6. From cradle to grave : youth and age in gardening books, page 148 -- Afterword, page 192.

Resources:
Contributor biographical information

ISBN:

074530804X
9780745308043

Subject:

Horticultural literature History.
Gardening Bibliography.
Horticulture Documentation Histoire.
Jardinage Bibliographie.
Gardening.
Horticultural literature.
Fachliteratur
Garten
Tuinieren.
Vakliteratuur.
Geschichte 1560-1960.
English prose.

Form/genre:

Bibliography
bibliographies.
Bibliographies.
History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 105987
Call No.: ID SB318.3.H69; ID:94-B2356
Copy: v. 1
Status: Available

Location: Library main 105986
Call No.: ID SB318.3.H69; ID:94-B2356
Copy: v. 2
Status: Available