John Dixon Hunt’s new biography takes a fresh look at the life and work of 17th-century English writer, gardener and diarist John Evelyn. Hunt discusses Evelyn’s most famous work, his…

The Making of Place offers an accessible tour of modern garden landscapes that gives non-designers as well as specialists a new view of the created outdoor world around them.

This volume of interdisciplinary essays explores the history and the diversity of the Italian garden from medieval times to the modern period, showing how different types of garden developed throughout…

Courts and societies across the early modern Eurasian world were fundamentally transformed by the physical, technological, and conceptual developments of their era. Evolving forms of communication, greatly expanded mobility, the…

This volume contains Allan Ramsay’s Enquiry into the Situation and Circumstances of Horace’s Sabine Villa . It also features essays about Ramsay, Jacob More, Jacob Philipp Hackert, the garden and…