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Timothy Mowl

Phaidon Press, 2001

An Excellent Overview of an Era
With an emphasis on architecture, this book also covers gardens, furnishings and interior decoration of Elizabethan and Jacobean era country houses. Mowl explains how the houses were used, which in turn explains many of their stylistic elements. Mowl uses historic engravings and paintings as well as gorgeous color photographs to illustrate the text. There are also many interesting excerpts from ...

Historic Gardens of Wiltshire
Timothy Mowl

NPI Media Group, 2004

Historic Gardens of Dorset
Timothy Mowl

Tempus, 2003

This work provides an authoritative and accessible guide to the historic gardens of Dorset, from the exquisite manor houses of the 16th and 17th centuries to the inspired creations of the 20th century.

Historic Gardens of Gloucestershire
Timothy Mowl

Arcadia Books, 2002

Gentlemen & Players: Gardeners of the English Landscape
Timothy Mowl

Sutton Publishing, 2000

This book traces the development of garden style through the owners who projected them and the gardeners who worked them.

Historic Gardens of Cornwall
Timothy Mowl

NPI Media Group, 2005

Obsession: John Wood and the Creation of Georgian Bath
Amy Frost, Cathryn Spence, ...

The Building of Bath Museum, 2004

An Insular Rococo: Architecture, Politics, and Society in Ireland and England 17101770
Timothy Mowl, Brian Earnshaw

Reaktion Books, 2000

Between 1710 and 1770, the inventive, ornate Rococo style should, in the natural course of events, have been Britain's prevailing decorative style. This is the first book to describe and explain its oddly frustrated course in England and, in vivid contrast, its brilliant flourishing in Ireland. The authors' controversial claim is that Ireland not only devised its own form of 'insular' Rococo, but exported this mode successfully in a gesture of ...

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