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Product Description: The garden at the Laskett in Herefordshire is always described as the largest formal garden laid out in Britain since the war and one of most important and interesting gardens of the second half of the twentieth century. It was made by Roy Strong and his wife, theatre designer Julia Trevelyan Oman, between 1973 and 2003...read more
By Clive Boursnell (photographer) and Roy Strong

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9780711233966 | Frances Lincoln Ltd, May 8, 2014, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: The garden at the Laskett in Herefordshire is always described as the largest formal garden laid out in Britain since the war and one of most important and interesting gardens of the second half of the twentieth century.

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Product Description: What does it mean to be English?For centuries, Englishness was synonymous with Britishness, informed first by the political dominance of the English monarchs over the British Isles -- reaching its apogee in the rule of Elizabeth I -- and later by the island's imperial might and expansion...read more

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9780099540496 | Reprint edition (Random House Uk Ltd, October 10, 2012), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: What does it mean to be English?

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Product Description: What does it mean to be English? For centuries, Englishness was synonymous with Britishness, informed first by the political dominance of the English monarchs over the British Isles—reaching its apogee in the rule of Elizabeth I—and later by the island's imperial might and expansion...read more

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9781847921604 | Random House Uk Ltd, September 1, 2011, cover price $32.95 | About this edition: What does it mean to be English?

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Tells the story of the English parish church, from the first temporary buildings erected in Anglo-Saxon times to its uncertain future in the twenty-first century. The author presents an elegy for the English country church - and a plea for its preservation.

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9780224075220 | Random House Uk Ltd, September 6, 2007, cover price $32.95 | About this edition: Tells the story of the English parish church, from the first temporary buildings erected in Anglo-Saxon times to its uncertain future in the twenty-first century.

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A comprehensive history that sets each coronation into its political, social, religious and cultural context. This book concentrates on post-1603 developments, including the story of the Stuarts, when the crown jewels used for hundreds of years at coronations were melted down as symbols of the hated Divine Right of Kings.

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9780007160556 | Harpercollins Pub Ltd, April 1, 2007, cover price $27.50 | About this edition: A comprehensive history that sets each coronation into its political, social, religious and cultural context.

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A comprehensive history of Coronation.

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9780007160549 | Harpercollins Pub Ltd, October 30, 2006, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: A comprehensive history of Coronation.

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Product Description: William Morris, designer, poet, socialist – nature lover. This volume focuses on Morris's vision of the garden, uncovering the principles which had such a profound effect on garden designers such as Gertrude Jekyll and William Robinson...read more

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9780711226098 | 1 edition (Frances Lincoln Ltd, August 30, 2006), cover price $34.95 | About this edition: William Morris, designer, poet, socialist – nature lover.

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9780300111163 | Paul Mellon Ctr for Studies, December 28, 2005, cover price $29.00

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Product Description: The Laskett is an intimate history of the garden Roy Strong made with his wife, Julia Trevelyan Oman—the largest formal garden created in the country since 1945. This personal book is the tale of a marriage as much as the tale of a garden, as into the Laskett they etched their own biographies, including many of the people who have crossed their lives and are commemorated within it...read more

Hardcover:

9780593050705 | Bantam Pr Ltd, March 1, 2004, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: The Laskett is an intimate history of the garden Roy Strong made with his wife, Julia Trevelyan Oman—the largest formal garden created in the country since 1945.

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9780553815191 | Transworld Pub, October 30, 2005, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: The Laskett is an intimate history of the garden Roy Strong made with his wife, Julia Trevelyan Oman—the largest formal garden created in the country since 1945.

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By Robin Dutt and Roy Strong (foreword by)

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9781904449270 | Chaucer Pr, December 31, 2004, cover price $35.00

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This is a guide to ornamental features in the small garden. Roy Strong shows how to consider size and scale, materials, shape, colour and texture, and offers help in placing garden ornaments effectively.

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9781552975619 | Firefly Books Ltd, March 1, 2002, cover price $39.95

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9780711223752 | New edition (Gardners Books, August 1, 2004), cover price $27.40 | About this edition: This is a guide to ornamental features in the small garden.
9781552975602 | Firefly Books Ltd, March 1, 2002, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Whether practical or purely decorative, ornament is the most immediate way of bringing distinctive character to a small garden, and the very stylish Roy Strong is the ideal guide to the world of garden ornament.

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Presents a catalog to accompany the exhibition of Cecil Beaton's portraits.

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9780300102895 | Yale Univ Pr, March 1, 2004, cover price $70.00 | About this edition: Presents a catalog to accompany the exhibition of Cecil Beaton's portraits.

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Traces the evolution of the culinary feast, exploring the ways in which such celebrations mirror the societies in which they occur and how they reflect changes in power and class.

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9780151007585 | 1 edition (Houghton Mifflin, November 1, 2003), cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Traces the evolution of the culinary feast, exploring the ways in which such celebrations mirror the societies in which they occur and how they reflect changes in power and class.

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Product Description: First published in the author’s popular newspaper column, this is a wide-ranging kaleidoscope of memories and observations, embracing the countryside, gardens, cooking and remembrances of things both long gone and only yesterday.

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9781857934434 | Trafalgar Square, April 1, 1995, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: This is a collection of articles taken from "Country Life" which appeared in the author's column "Countryman's Week".

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9780786251346 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, May 1, 2003), cover price $25.95 | About this edition: First published in the author’s popular newspaper column, this is a wide-ranging kaleidoscope of memories and observations, embracing the countryside, gardens, cooking and remembrances of things both long gone and only yesterday.

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Collects the writings of the historian, critic, and garden writer as they appeared in Country Life magazine in the late 1980s, in a celebration of the author's love for Herefordshire, cooking, and the natural world. 10,000 first printing.

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9780312307097 | 1 edition (St Martins Pr, March 1, 2003), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Collects the writings of the historian, critic, and garden writer as they appeared in 'Country Life' magazine in the late 1980s, in a celebration of the author's love for Herefordshire, cooking, and the natural world.

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Product Description: Sir Roy Strong, author, broadcaster, former Director of the National Portrait Gallery and of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, tells the story of Britain from the very earliest recorded Celtic times to the era of Margaret Thatcher...read more

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9780880641784 | Fromm Intl, April 1, 1997, cover price $49.95 | About this edition: A magnificently illustrated volume chronicles two thousand years of Britain's history, the triumph of its people, the glory of its culture, and its dramatic influence on other nations of the world, especially the United States.

CD/Spoken Word:

9780753114940 | Unabridged edition (Isis Audio, January 31, 2002), cover price $116.95 | About this edition: Sir Roy Strong, author, broadcaster, former Director of the National Portrait Gallery and of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, tells the story of Britain from the very earliest recorded Celtic times to the era of Margaret Thatcher.

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9780753105542 | Unabridged edition (Isis Audio, June 1, 1999), cover price $99.95 | About this edition: Chronicles the history of Great Britain from Celtic time through the administration of Margaret Thatcher.

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Product Description: "Well illustrated, instructive and fun"--The Observer. Resurrect the forgotten art of the formal garden, full of elegance and enchantment, even in the smallest backyards. Intimate and complex or simple and streamlined, these 24 arrangements--worthy of a king but suitable everywhere--share such wonderfully theatrical devices as a mirror-image pair of beds or ornamental focal points to draw the eye along a vista...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9781850298311 | Conran Octopus, May 1, 2001, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: "Well illustrated, instructive and fun"--The Observer.

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Presents plans for twenty gardens, with photographs and details on how the fundamental ideas and elements of design behind each approach can be applied and adapted to other gardens (view table of contents)

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9780394555430 | Random House Inc, March 1, 1987, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Presents plans for twenty gardens, with photographs and details on how the fundamental ideas and elements of design behind each approach can be applied and adapted to other gardens

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9781850298267 | Conran Octopus, May 1, 2000, cover price $17.95

The author examines the growth and development of painting, poetry, music architecture, theatre and literature, which give British intellectual life its unique character. He presents cameos of people like Cardinal Wolsey and Kenneth Clark whose influence has reached beyond their individual lives.

Hardcover:

9781856815345 | Vintage Uk, September 2, 1999, cover price $73.40 | About this edition: The author examines the growth and development of painting, poetry, music architecture, theatre and literature, which give British intellectual life its unique character.

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