The English Garden through the 20th Century

This book is described as a new edition of The English Garden in our Time from Gertrude Jekyll to Geoffrey Jellicoe (1986), which, technically, it is, though most of what appeared originally remains the same. Readers should not be misled by the blurb which states that the book “has been thoroughly revised”: it has indeed been revised but the revisions relate principally to the illustrations, where there are more coloured illustrations and indeed more illustrations in total. Most of the illustrations which appeared in the first edition reappear, though in many cases in a different size. The layout of the...