Furor Hortensis: Essays on the History of the English Landscape Garden in Memory of H.F. Clark

Clark, H.F.

Edinburgh: Elysium Press, 1974. Hardcover. Black and white cloth boards with gilt design on front cover, brown cloth spine with gilt lettering, bw portrait frontispiece, 107 pages, 16 unnumbered leaves of bw plates. VG. Item #178929
ISBN: 9780904712001

First edition one of 1000 copies. Edited by Peter Willis with an introduction by Sir Robert H. Matthew and biographical memoirs by Patrick Nuttgens and Geoffrey Jellicoe. Contents include: Nuttgens, P.H.F. Clark as teacher. -- Jellicoe, G.H.F. Clark as practitioner. -- Brogden, W.A. Stephen Switzer: "La Grand Manier". -- Spink, W. Sir John Clerk of Penicuik: Landowner as designer. -- Willis, P. Charles Bridgeman: The royal gardens. -- Clarke, G. William Kent: Heresy in Stowe's Elysium. -- Batey, M. Oliver Goldsmith: An indictment of landscape gardening. -- Stroud, D. Humphrey Repton: A forgotten landscape at Wembley Park. -- Fricker, L. John Claudius Loudon: The plane truth? -- List of subscribers to the H.F. Clark Fund and to "Furor hortensis."