Volume 1

Formal gardens in England and Scotland : their planning and arrangement, architectural and ornamental features / by H. Inigo Triggs ; illustrated by seventy-two plates from drawings by the author and fifty three reproduced from photographs by Charles Latham.

  • Inigo Triggs
Date:
1902
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Formal gardens in England and Scotland : their planning and arrangement, architectural and ornamental features / by H. Inigo Triggs ; illustrated by seventy-two plates from drawings by the author and fifty three reproduced from photographs by Charles Latham. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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