SKU: B-000100

The Master Of Landscaping

Author: R.T.M. Pescott

Special Features: Dust Jacket, Illustrated, First Edition, Hardcover

Condition: In good condition. Light dust jacket scuffing/wear. Clean and tidy pages. No writing. No dog ears. Tight binding. From a smoke free home.

Gardening & Environment Biography & Memoir History

Gardening Landscaping Australia Melbourne Botanical Garden W.R. Guilfoyle

The Master Of Landscaping by R.T.M. Pescott profiles W.R. Guilfoyle, the visionary 19th-century landscaper who shaped Melbourne’s Botanic Garden into a world-famous horticultural showcase. This 1974 first-edition hardcover blends Australian history with garden artistry, tracing Guilfoyle’s journey from plant collector to celebrated designer.

Pescott’s narrative, enriched with vintage illustrations, reveals how Guilfoyle transformed colonial parklands into sweeping vistas and exotic plant collections still enjoyed today. Collectors of Australian history, botanical non-fiction, and landscape design will appreciate the detailed research and period imagery.

The dust-jacketed volume arrives clean and tight, showing only light shelf rub to the jacket edges—no writing, ex-library marks, or smoke odour. A well-preserved copy ready for the shelf or the potting bench.

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