Todd Longstaffe-Gowan.

Todd Longstaffe-Gowan. The London Town Garden 1700-1840 novel Haven, Conn.: Yale University Pres 2001 Pp xiii, 289 $6000 ISBN 0-300-08538-9

Todd Longstaffe-Gowan has locate himself the difficult task of persuading his readers that town gardens in London, a make subordinate not hitherto addressed, are worthy of consideration. It is a measure of his skill, industry, and the wealth of information and illustration he has managed to compile athwart many years that he follows triumphantly. The central riddle is that many of the gardens were mundane, insubstantial, and of little interest

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