Capability Brown Festival Book List (completed end of February 2017)

Books are displayed according to year of publication. Please note that the Festival is not endorsing any individual book-seller – do shop around! For more on the work of the County Gardens Trusts, see The Gardens Trust website.

Books about and his work

Publication Author(s) Title Publisher In Link year print? 2017 Barry Goldsmith ‘Engineering the landscape – ICE Publishing yes Download here Clarke; Benedict Capability Brown’s role’ in ICE Virtual Library Barrett; Eleanor Proceedings of the Institution of essential Hudson; James Civil Engineers - Engineering engineering Whibberley History and Heritage, Volume knowledge 170 Issue 1, February 2017, pp. 19-30

2016 Williamson, T. ‘Lancelot Brown and Local Yes British Association for Local History’ The Local Historian 46. History website pp. 266 (Article)

2016 Sally Bate (Editor) Capability Brown in Norfolk Gardens Yes Jarrolds of Trust Norfolk Gardens Trust website 2016 John Phibbs and Joe Capability Brown: Designing Rizzoli Yes Amazon Cornish English landscapes and gardens 2016 David Brown and Lancelot Brown and the Reaktion Books Yes Reaktion Books website Tom Williamson Capability men: landscape revolution in Eighteenth-Century England 2016 Karen Lynch Noble Prospects: Capability Yorkshire Gardens Yes Yorkshire Gardens Trust Brown and the Yorkshire Trust website landscape 2016 Steffie Shields Moving heaven and earth: Unicorn Publishing Yes The Unicorn Publishing Group Capability Brown’s gift of Group website landscape 2016 Kent Gardens Trust Capability Brown in Kent Windsor Yes YPD Books website

Publication Author(s) Title Publisher In Link year print? 2016 Essex Gardens Trust Lancelot Brown and his Essex Essex Gardens Yes Essex Gardens Trust website clients Trust 2016 Patrick Eyres (editor) Yorkshire Capabilities (New New Arcadian Yes New Arcadian Press website Arcadian Journal) Press 2016 Sarah Rutherford Capability Brown and his Yes The National Trust website landscape gardens Books 2016 Tim Scott Bolton A Brush with Brown: the The Dovecote Yes The Dovecote Press website landscapes of ‘Capability’ Brown Press 2016 Peter Brimacombe Capability Brown Pitkin Yes The History Press website 2015 Sarah Spooner Regions and Designed Routledge Yes Amazon Landscapes in Georgian England 2015 The Duchess of Capability Brown and Belvoir: Nick McCann Yes The Belvoir Castle website Rutland with Jane discovering a lost landscape Associates Pruden

2013 Roger Turner Capability Brown and the The History Press Yes The History Press website eighteenth century English landscape 2012 Jane Brown Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown: the Pimlico No See buying options on Amazon omnipotent magician 1716-1783 2011 Laura Mayer Capability Brown and the English Shire Library Yes The Publishing landscape garden website 2000 A Woodhouse Kirkharle courtyard: Capability Printed privately No See buying options on Amazon Brown and his birthplace 1986 Thomas Hinde Capability Brown: the story of a Century No See buying options on Amazon master gardener Hutchinson 1984 Dorothy Stroud Capability Brown Faber & Faber No See buying options on Amazon 1983 Peter Willis Capability Brown in Northumberland No See buying options on Amazon Northumberland and Newcastle Society

Publication Author(s) Title Publisher In Link year print? 1983 Tyne and Wear Capability Brown and the Tyne and Wear No See buying options on Amazon County Council northern landscape County Council Museums and the Museums North East Chapter of the Landscape Institute

1974 Joan Clifford Capability Brown: an illustrated Shire Publications No See buying options on Amazon life of Lancelot Brown 1716-1783 Ltd 1971 Edward Hyams Capability Brown and Humphry J M Dent & Sons No See buying options on Amazon Repton Ltd

Books including significant reference to Brown, but where his work is not the main subject

Publication Author(s) Title Publisher In print? Link year 2017 Margaret Stone, Ann An Eighteenth Century National Trust, Yes Croome 01905 371006 Hooper, Pamela Obsession: The Plant Collection Croome and ask for shop Shaw & Lesley of the 6th Earl of Coventry at Tanner Croome Park, Worcestershire. 2016 Kate Felus The secret life of the Georgian I.B. Tauris Yes I.B. Tauris website garden: beautiful objects and agreeable retreats 2016 Mikhail Piotrovsky, The Hampton Court albums of Fontanka Yes Fontanka website Mikhail Dedinkin Catherine the Great and David Jacques 2016 Observations on modern The Boydell Yes Boydell & Brewer website (introduction and gardening: an Eighteenth- Press commentary by Century study of the English Michael Symes) landscape garden Publication Author(s) Title Publisher In print? Link year 2016 Michael Symes The in Historic England Yes Historic England bookshop Europe 2015 Ian Wray Great British plans: who made Routledge Yes The Routledge website them and how they worked 2015 Mark Laird A natural history of English Yale University Yes YaleBooks gardening, 1650-1800 Press 2009 Fiona Cowell Richard Woods: Master of the Boydell and Yes Boydell and Brewer website Pleasure Garden Brewer 2007 Jonathan Finch and Estate landscapes: design, Boydell and Yes Boydell and Brewer website Kate Giles (editors) improvement and power in the Brewer post-medieval landscape 2007 Tim Richardson The Arcadian Friends: inventing Bantam Yes See buying options on Amazon the English landscape garden 2006 Jennifer Meir Sanderson Miller and his Phillimore Yes See buying options on Amazon Landscapes 2005 John Barnatt and Chatsworth: a landscape history Windgather Yes Oxbow Books Tim Williamson Press 2000 Timothy Mowl Gentlemen and Players: Sutton Yes See buying options on Amazon gardeners of the English landscape 1999 Mark Laird The Flowering of the English Pennsylvania No See buying options on Amazon Landscape Garden: English University Press pleasure grounds 1720-1800 1999 Stephen Daniels Humphry Repton: landscape Yale University Yes YaleBooks gardening and the geography of Press Georgian England 1998 Dana Arnold The Georgian Country House: Sutton Yes The History Press architecture, landscape and society

Publication Author(s) Title Publisher In print? Link year 1995 T. Williamson Polite Landscapes: Gardens and Tempus No See buying options on Amazon Society in Eighteenth-Century England 1993 Douglas Chambers The Planters of the English Yale University No See buying options on Amazon Landscape Garden: botany, trees Press and the Georgics 1983 David Jacques Georgian Gardens: the reign of Batsford No See buying options on Amazon nature 1978 M. Girouard Life in the English Country Yale University Yes YaleBooks House: a social and architectural Press history