Bidspirit auction | Thomas H Mawson

Thomas H Mawson - The Art & Craft of Garden Making, quarta Edição - Thomas H Mawson, 1912. Published in London in 1912 by the prestigious publisher B. T. Batsford, this fourth edition of *The Art & Craft of Garden Making*, by Thomas H. Mawson, is a fundamental reference work for landscape architecture. The 404-page copy is in very good condition, exhibiting an elegant hardcover binding, covered in cloth, with gilt tooling on both the spine and the front plate, where a subtle decorative composition stands out. The text block remains firm and clean, offering a rich visual testimony through a vast selection of illustrations and photographs of historic English gardens, accompanied by the detailed diagrams of landscape organization and composition that immortalized the author. As a note of interest for the collector, the copy preserves on the title page an ownership stamp dated January 25, 1967, conferring a layer of historical provenance to this essential reference volume for scholars of classical garden design.