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Beth Chatto a life with plants catherine horwood

‘Beth Chatto is one of the most influential gardeners in our history. This extraordinary person will touch generations of gardeners to come. Gardeners from all over the world have taken her lead on the right plant, right place and have had our eyes opened to texture, shape and form.’ Fergus Garrett catherine horwood is a social historian with a passion for plants and gardens. ‘Of all the gardeners I know, it is for Beth that I feel the Her books include Gardening Women: Their Stories from 1600 deepest respect.’ Alan Titchmarsh to the Present (Virago, 2010), Rose (Reaktion, 2018), Potted ‘Beth’s garden was perhaps the most original British History: The Story of Plants horticultural creation of the twentieth century. It will and the Home (Frances Lincoln, 2007) and Keeping Up continue to have a profound effect on designers across Appearances: Fashion and Class the world in the twenty-first century.’ James Hitchmough, Between the Wars (Sutton, 2005). She has written for Professor of Horticultural Ecology, Sheffield University newspapers and magazines including The Times, Daily Beth Chatto: A Life with Plants tells the story of the most Mail, Gardens Illustrated and influential British plantswoman of the past hundred The English Garden. Her blog, www.gardeningwomen.com, years. Beth Chatto was the inspiration behind the ‘right has a worldwide following. plant, right place’ ethos that lies at the heart of modern gardening. She also wrote some of the best-loved gardening books of the twentieth century, among them The Dry Garden, The Damp Garden, and Beth Chatto’s Gravel Garden. Some years before her death in May 2018, aged ninety- four, Beth authorised Catherine Horwood to write her biography, with exclusive access to her archive. It also Publication September 2019 includes extracts from Beth’s notebooks and diaries, never previously published, bringing Beth’s own distinctive and Specifications Hardback, £30 much-loved voice into the book. Most of the photographs 230 x 170mm, 288 pages from Beth’s personal archives have also never been seen in 978-1-910258-82-8 print before. For Beth’s legions of fans, Beth Chatto: A Life Colour and b/w illustrations with Plants is the personal story behind her beliefs and throughout the struggles and determination that brought her success. Rights sold: German NEW TITLE

Scent Magic notes from a gardener

isabel bannerman

In Scent Magic, a book which is at once romantic Isabel Bannerman was and extremely practical, plantswoman, designer born in Paddington in 1962, the and garden-maker extraordinaire Isabel Bannerman youngest of five children. She began immerses the reader in the luscious smells of gardening when, as a university the garden through a warmly written account of student, she met Julian Bannerman, owner of Bannerman’s Bar in the her year’s gardening; and combines this with an Old Town, Edinburgh. Together encyclopaedic reference work of the best aromatic they moved to a derelict baroque plants to grow throughout the seasons. Whether mansion in Wiltshire and camped evoking the freshly baked sponge smell emanating while restoring the house and from wisteria, describing ‘Stanwell Perpetual’ as starting to design gardens and garden buildings for a living. With ‘the kind of rose that would taste of apricot and a lot of luck and hard work, they raspberries swirled together’, or championing the established a practice, winning Gold magic of the Himalayan cowslip, ‘scented profoundly Medals at Chelsea and working for and deliciously like the dark vault of a Damascus discerning clients including HRH spice merchant’, the poetry of her descriptions is The Prince of Wales and many high- profile celebrities. Isabel has taken here joined with personal memories and a lifetime’s photographs since she was at school experience of gardening and plant cultivation. and began making her particular style of botanical scans in 2003. She wrote Widespread praise for Landscape of Dreams includes: and photographed Landscape Of Dreams (Pimpernel Press, 2016). ‘A beautifully illustrated and endearing part- biography, part-overview of the thinking behind their work . . .’ The Sunday Times Garden Book of the Year Publication October 2019 ‘An absolutely magical book. Such brilliant writing, Specifications vivid, engaged . . . a most potent record of true Hardback, £30 brilliance.’ Anna Pavord 270 x 210mm, 240 pages 978-1-910258-49-1 ‘I just gorged myself on this magnificent book. Colour illustrations Utterly transporting. The first garden book I could throughout not put down.’ Dominic West NEW TITLE NEW TITLE

Led by the Land Modern Plant landscapes by kim wilkie Hunters the search for interesting and useful plants

DR sandy primrose

‘A revelatory story of how landscapes in human hands can Much has been published on the topic of plant hunting, Kim Wilkie had an intense become inhabited works of art, written by one of the most and almost all of it is about the plant hunters of the so- Dr Sandy Primrose MBE introduction to landscape. gifted of today’s landscape architects.’ called ‘golden age’ that ended with the death of Frank PhD has spent his professional He grew up in the Malaysian life as a biologist, initially in jungle and the Iraqi desert Sir David Attenborough Kingdon Ward in 1958. One might be forgiven for academia and then as a senior before being sent to school thinking that plant hunting itself came to an end in 1958 manager in pharmaceutical, in southern England. Having ‘If you want to make a landmark, do not grow gentians. – but nothing could be further from the truth. On the diagnostic and life science studied history at Oxford companies. He has also worked and environmental design at Get Wilkie to shape the myths of your dreams.’ contrary, there have been more new plant introductions with various government the University of California, Robin Lane Fox, Financial Times in the past thirty years than ever before. departments on topics such Berkeley, he set up his This book tells the stories of the modern-day plant as the detection of food fraud landscape studio in London in and the safety of genetically 1989. He is fascinated by the An updated and expanded edition of Kim Wilkie’s hunters – such pioneering adventurers as Mikinori engineered foods. He now link between land and culture classic work, widely acclaimed as a major contribution to Ogisu, Dan Hinkley, Ed de Vogel, Lin Yu-Lin, Bill works as a consultant helping and between memory and the literature on landscape, sustainability, regeneration Terry and Claire Scobie. The author examines the early-stage companies in the imagination. He continues to healthcare field. Sandy is a teach sporadically at Berkeley, and design. search for medicinal plants and the work of scientific keen gardener and lectures writes optimistically about land In addition to the many private and public landscape institutions, both of which have been largely ignored, extensively on plants, and place and is involved in designs described in the first edition of Led by the Land, and considers such developments as the effect of habitat horticulture and gardening. various national committees on He is passionate about landscape and environmental this revised edition includes new projects, among them destruction on plant loss and plant diversity. teaching and tries to be both policy in the UK. He lives in Kim Wilkie’s thought-provoking designs for the grounds entertaining and educational. Hampshire. of London’s Natural History Museum, tracing ‘the He lives in Buckinghamshire. passage from deep time to the present [and] to the future . . . exploring where we go next and how we can continue to survive in the narrow bands of atmosphere and topsoil that make life possible in the thin biosphere of the planet’.

Publication Publication October 2019 October 2019 Specifications Specifications Hardback, £35 Hardback, £30 230 x 170mm, 208 pages 230 x 170mm, 240 pages 978-1-910258-52-1 978-1-910258-78-1 Colour and b/w illustrations Colour and b/w illustrations throughout throughout 4 5 NEW TITLE NEW TITLE

Henbury Thomas Hennell an extraordinary house the last english watercolourist

jeremy musson jessica kilburn

foreword by hrh the prince of wales

introduction by gilly ziani de ferranti

Henbury Hall in Cheshire has been described as the When John Rothenstein, Director of the Tate Gallery, Jeremy Musson is a most beautiful house built in Britain in the last hundred published the third volume of his Modern English Painters in Jessica Kilburn is distinguished architectural years. This late twentieth-century house rises from the 1984, he subtitled it Hennell to Hockney. While, now as then, a London-based artist, historian, writer and researcher and writer. She broadcaster. He was rolling contours of its ancient parkland as a Palladian David Hockney needs no introduction, Thomas Hennell studied English Literature Architectural Editor of Country masterpiece of symmetry, elegance and simplicity. Full of (1903–1945) has somehow slipped off the radar. He at Merton College, Oxford, Life magazine 1998−2007. intriguing historic references, its form both venerable and undoubtedly deserves to be more widely recognized today. followed by History of Art Previous books include English at the University of Glasgow. Country House Interiors (Rizzoli, familiar, it is unique in the story of twentieth-century At the time of his death, Hennell was generally considered Her work has appeared in the 2011) , The Drawing Room: British architecture. to be among Britain's most significant watercolourists. poetry journal 14 and Illustration English Country House Writing in Country Life in 2002, Jeremy Musson He struggled with serious mental illness, was magazine. She contributed to Decoration (Rizzoli, 2014) the Oxford Dictionary of National Robert Adam: Country House highlighted the enduring English love affair with the diagnosed as schizophrenic and spent the years from Biography (OUP, 2004) and Design, Decoration and the Art Palladian tradition, which, for lovers of classic country 1932 to 1935 in the Maudsley mental hospital in curated a permanent exhibition of Elegance (Rizzoli, 2017) and houses, makes ‘a first sight of the great villas of the London. Edward Bawden encouraged him to 'centre on Lancelot ‘Capability’ Secret Houses of the Cotswolds Brown for his birthplace in (Francs Lincoln, 2018). He also Veneto feel like coming home’. For the Ziani de Ferranti and compose' the experience of schizophrenia by writing Northumberland. presented the BBC 2 series The family, the Veneto was indeed home. So perhaps it about it, and Hennell's remarkable illustrated account, Curious House Guest. He lives in is hardly surprising that when Sebastian de Ferranti The Witness, was published in 1938. Eric Ravilious, too, Cambridge. (1927−2015), came to realize his vision for his house helped Hennell with his recovery, providing a series of it should be based on Palladio’s villa La Rotunda at wood engravings as illustrations for The Poems of Thomas Vicenza. Henbury Hall was designed by Julian Bicknell Hennell, published in 1936. and Felix Kelly and built in the mid-1980s, with interior At the outbreak of war in 1939 Hennell wrote to the design by David Mlinaric. War Artists’ Advisory Committee, offering his services This book, written by Jeremy Musson and drawing as an artist. From 1943 he was a full-time salaried war on more than thirty years of superb photography, is the artist. He served in Europe and the Far East and was complementary vision of Sebastian de Ferranti’s widow, in Java when he was captured by Indonesian nationalist Gilly de Ferranti, her tribute to her husband’s creation, fighters in November 1945. He is presumed to have been

Publication and as beautiful a book as Henbury Hall is a house. killed shortly after. Publication September 2019 October 2019 Hennell's paintings and drawings provide an insight Specifications Specifications Hardback, £50 into an era: they will appeal not only to art lovers but Hardback, £50 305 x 229mm, 240 pages to those with a love of the countryside and farming, to 295 x 238mm, 288 pages 978-1-910258-11-8 anyone with an interest in the Second World War, and 978-1-910258-62-0 Colour illustrations to admirers of the now very famous artists who were his Colour and b/w illustrations throughout friends and regarded him as an equal. throughout 6 7 NEW TITLE recently published IN HARDBACK

Restoration Stories Virginia Woolf patina and paint in at Home old london houses HILARY MACASKILL philippa stockley FOREWORD by cECIL WOOLF photography by charlie hopkinson

What is it about old pine panelling layered with Virginia Woolf, figurehead of the Bloomsbury Group Philippa Stockley is an flaking paint that enchants the eye and tugs at the and an innovative writer whose experimental style and hilary macaskill is award-winning journalist renowned heart? The soft shine of wooden boards, worn and lyrical prose ensured her position as one of the most a freelance journalist and for her writing on London travel writer. She is the architecture and interiors, and a gappy. Sunlight shafting through an open door out influential of modern novelists, was also firmly anchored author of Downhill All the Way: critically acclaimed novelist whose to an unevenly flagged yard where a clay pipe might in the reality of the houses she lived in and those she Walking with Donkeys on the latest novel, Black Lily (Pimpernel turn up alongside a Thames oyster shell or a pottery visited regularly. Detailed and evocative accounts appear Stevenson Trail, Agatha Christie Press, 2018) is set in seventeenth- at Home, Charles Dickens at century London. Stockley holds shard. Blue-and-white export ware; the molten lustre in her letters and diaries, as well as in her fiction, where Home and Daphne du Maurier MAs in in English from Oxford of mahogany or worn silver; the curiosity of tricorn they appear as backdrops or provide direct inspiration. at Home. She lives in London. University and art history from the hat boxes or a fragment of Spitalfields silk; portraits Courtauld Institute of Art. She lives in London. whose owners might once have lived here. Would Hilary Macaskill examines the houses that meant the they have believed that these houses would stand most to Woolf, including: Charlie Hopkinson is 250 years later? a celebrated photographer of interiors, gardens and portraits. Time has imbued all these things with • 22 Hyde Park Gate, London – where Virginia Woolf His latest book, Head Gardeners unforgettable patina − not only in museums, but even was born in 1882 (Pimpernel Press, 2017), won the more in old Georgian houses still lived in and loved, • Talland House, St Ives, Cornwall – the summer home Garden Media Guild’s Inspirational Book of the Year award. He lives repaired, and regenerated. Like pearls, warmed to of Virginia’s family until 1895 in London. lustre by the daily caress of a hand or foot. • 46 Gordon Square, Bloomsbury, London – the The majority of these extraordinary dwellings birthplace of the Bloomsbury Group – Virginia lived began as ordinary terrace houses, built to a pattern, here from 1904 to 1912 often in pairs or small groups. Clusters exist in the • Hogarth House, Richmond, London – where the East End of London: in Spitalfields, Whitechapel, newly married Woolfs set up home and founded the Shadwell, Mile End. They are mostly Grade Hogarth Press II-listed, and their owners put up with the bone- • Asheham House, East Sussex – the summer home of curdling cold of winter howling through gaps, with the Woolfs, 1912-1919 Publication mending and colour-matching, patching and piecing. • 52 Tavistock Square, London – a return to Publication September 2019 May 2019 Not just put up with − they embrace it. And among Bloomsbury, the heart of London Specifications Specifications Hardback, £45 them are some unrepentantly furnished with 20th- • Monk’s House, Rodmell, East Sussex – where Hardback, £25 275 x 245mm, 224 pages and 21st-century modern, finding poetic harmony Virginia lived from 1919 until her death in 1941 230 x 170mm, 208 pages 978-1-910258-41-5 across the centuries. 978-1-910258-69-9 Colour and b/w illustrations Over 100 colour and b/w throughout illustrations throughout 8 9 recently published IN PAPERBACK BACKLIST

Paradise and Plenty Pimpernel Garden Classics a rothschild family garden

mary keen

photography by tom hatton introduction by gregory long epilogue by lord rothschild

‘Exceptional.’ Anna Pavord, The Garden MARY KEEN is an Beth The Gertrude Meadows internationally known designer ‘Gloriously illustrated.’ Woman and Home Chatto's Gardener's Jekyll at at Great who has worked in the USA, France and Corfu, as well as on Shade Book of Munstead Dixter many English gardens of great ‘More than a spectacular picture book.’ Evening Standard Garden Colour Wood and Beyond distinction – among them the shade-loving andrew lawson judith tankard & CHRISTOPHER garden she describes in this ‘A handsome volume, both coffee-table book and plants for LLOYD & book. For twenty years she was year-round ‘Thoroughly revised martin wood a member of the National Trust practical manual.’ Spectator fergus garrett interest and updated . . . Gardens Panel, which advises ‘[A] delicious volume PHOTOGRAPHS BY on the care of important and [with] spectacularly by two leading ‘If you want to know how to grow peaches, melons or beth chatto jonathan buckley historic gardens. She is the illuminating experts . . . this PHOTOGRAPHS BY & carol casselden author of five books and has superb herbaceous borders in beautifully matched colours, illustrations, the book explains the monthly columns in the Daily steven wooster let alone every kind of vegetable and edible cherry, there book sets out above processes and the ‘An inspiring Telegraph and Garden magazine afterword BY and is a regular contributor are details here that no other gardening book in print is all to help you find very human side of book, factual and david ward to Gardens Illustrated and the able to pass on.’ Robin Lane Fox, Financial Times both what individual a garden designer enchanting. A highly Spectator. She lives in Wiltshire. ‘A masterclass in colours and what whose legacy recommended read.’ combinations The Cottage Gardener TOM HATTON is a rising ‘Packed with practical information and guidance.’ garden design.’ endures.’ work best for you star of garden photography. Daily Telegraph Francine Raymond, Country Life SPECIFICATIONS His photographs for Paradise The Daily Telegraph throughout the year. Hardback, £30 and Plenty have been widely In short, invaluable.’ SPECIFICATIONS 230 x 170mm Hardback, £25 acclaimed. He lives in London. ‘This feast of a book is my favourite in a distinguished SPECIFICATIONS 240 pages David Sexton, 230 x 170mm year for gardening books.’ The Lady Hardback, £30 978-1-910258-03-3 Evening Standard 208 pages 230 x 170mm Colour illustrations 978-1-910258-05-7 232 pages throughout ‘The book gives a rare and profound understanding of 978-1-910258-22-4 SPECIFICATIONS Colour illustrations Hardback, £25 Publication Colour illustrations throughout the sophistication of gardening at its most masterly . . . 230 x 170mm throughout June 2019 Inspiring.’ Kim Wilkie, House & Garden 232 pages Specifications 978-1-910258-02-6 Paperback, £30 Colour illustrations ‘In the charmless age of the Kindle, this is a welcome 270 x 210mm, 304 pages throughout 978-1-910258-75-0 reminder of how beautiful an object a book can be.’ Rights sold: German, Gardens Illustrated Simplified Chinese, Colour illustrations US & Canada throughout, seven double (paperback) gatefolds ‘Much more than just a coffee table book . . . Rights sold: German Fascinating.’ The English Garden 10 11 BACKLIST BACKLIST

Gardens & Gardening

The Brilliant Double Flower Gardening Gardening The Generous Head Apprehensive & Wild Flowers Market Across Notes From Gardener Gardeners Gardener a garden from the remarkable botanical style the Pond a Late private paradises ambra edwards managing scratch in a story of extra- at home anglo-american Bloomer shared garden plants year petalled blooms exchanges from photographs BY michelle mason clare hastings CAROLINE DONALD charlie Griselda kerr lucy bellamy nicola ferguson the settlers Michelle Mason in virginia to drawings BY ‘Absorbing and hopkinson photographs BY with charles An invaluable guide draws on her prairie gardens osbert lancaster entertaining.’ Matthew winner, inspirational jason ingram quest-ritson extensive design in england Biggs, The Garden book of the year, to plant care, for the garden media guild WINNER, PRACTICAL ‘An enchanting read, beginner gardener or ‘Scholarly and experience, playing awards, 2017 BOOK OF THE YEAR, RICHARD BISGROVE packed full of good ‘These very personal for more experienced GARDEN MEDIA GUILD fascinating.’ with shape, colour advice and quirky encounters, each ‘An informative and gardeners wanting AWARDS 2018 Rachel de Thame, and composition ‘I was completely observations on the rendered in little eye-opening delight.’ guidance on specific Sunday Times to show how to riveted from the ‘Bellamy makes joys – and occasional more than a thousand Philippa Stockley, plants. Simply and Gardening Book of the make the most very first page . . . gardening simple, heartache – of words, like miniature Country Life Year 2018 of fresh flowers. illuminating.’ clearly set out for expressive and joyful. gardening.’ Daily Mail Using salvaged and Gardens Illustrated paintings, tell us so constant quick Anyone can do it ‘Rarely do garden ‘Both erudite and reclaimed objects as ‘An amusing read much…Enjoying reference. cheaply and with ‘Bisgrove deftly books move me to seductively readable, props and backdrops, . . . but there is also my journey through little spare time.’ comparable to establishes the her book I felt at the tears, but certain SPECIFICATIONS Flower Market is plenty of practical Paperback original, Evening Standard the writings of links between those end that I’d been to a pages in Head £16.99, 245 x 187mm brimming with who have shaped advice. Comical Gardeners were so ‘Both practical and Christopher Lloyd grand garden party, 288 pages texture, colour, our gardens and illustrations by moving tht I found 978-1-910258-23-1 inspirational.’ - and there simply pattern and exciting Osbert Lancaster add catching up with a few hasn’t been a book on landscapes on both myself welling up.’ 40 colour illustrations Country Living and inspiring ways to the book's charm.’ old pals and making the subject before.’ sides of the Atlantic.’ several new friends.’ Gillian Mawrey, to group and display House and Garden Historic Gardens Review SPECIFICATIONS David Sexton, The English Garden David Wheeler, Hortus Hardback, £20 flowers and plants. Evening Standard SPECIFICATIONS 235 x 187mm SPECIFICATIONS SPECIFICATIONS Hardback, £12.99 SPECIFICATIONS Hardback, £35 176 pages SPECIFICATIONS Hardback, £40 Hardback, £30 SPECIFICATIONS Hardback, £20 198 x 129mm 230 x 170mm, 240 pages 978-1-910258-63-7 230 x 170mm, 240 pages 230 x 170mm, 208 pages Hardback, £30 235 x 187mm 128 pages 978-1-910258-74-3 Colour illustrations 978-1-910258-24-8 978-1-910258-97-2 230 x 170mm 176 pages 978-1-910258-98-9 Colour and b/w throughout Two 16-page colour plate Colour illustrations 296 pages 978-1-910258-20-0 Line drawings throughout illustrations throughout Rights sold: French, sections, b/w illustrations throughout 978-1-910258-88-0 Colour illustrations German throughout Colour illustrations throughout throughout

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Architecture Gardens & Gardening & Interiors

Herterton A Landscape Landscape of Setting Topiary, Woburn You Should After House Legacy Dreams the Scene Knots and Abbey Have Been the Fire

and a New john brookes mbe the gardens of a garden design Parterres the park Here london Country isabel & julian masterclass caroline foley & gardens Last Week churches in foreword BY bannerman from repton to the age of Garden cleve west keir davidson sharp cuttings the modern age winner, european wren, hooke, foreword by from a garden FRANK LAWLEY preface BY garden book of the special PHOTOGRAPHy hawksmoor HRH THE PRINCE OF george carter andrew duff year, 2018 BY bridget davey writer PHOTOGRAPHy BY WALES and gibbs special PHOTOGRAPHy BY INTRODUCTION BY tim richardson VAL CORBETT ‘Essential reading ‘Demonstrates that angelo hornak ‘Makes an excellent marianne majerus the duchess of FOREWORD BY this most ancient for anyone interested present . . . Isabel’s ‘A collection of lively FOREWORD BY CHARLES ‘Sheer originality, of traditions is bedford in garden design vividly coloured style articles by one of the the rt revD QUEST-RITSON verve, wit and alive and kicking, and history.’ Tim is punctuated with ‘The best most intelligent stephen platten invention burst from reinterpreted by ‘Lovingly penned, Richardson, Telegraph acute insight. The country-house garden critics writing the images on these contemporary garden ‘The buildings deeply personal and Bannermans describe history published today. Richardson is not ‘This memoir is a pages. The author and landscape that transformed strangely moving, and illustrate designs in recent years.’ afraid to prod, book all landscape modestly tells us designers to look as London’s skyline it speaks volumes which bring the John Martin Robinson, tease and question designers should about Repton - but it relevant today as it in the late 17th about the intense past into the present Country Life received opinion.’ have on their is Carter from whom was to the Romans. and early 18th relationship that a without losing their The Sunday Times shelves.’ The Garden we learn. He gives You will be reaching SPECIFICATIONS centuries, described gardener gradually capacity to startle as Hardback, £40 ‘The most independent, and beautifully SPECIFICATIONS the amateur designer for those shears.’ forges with the space well as delight.’ 270 x 210mm thoughtful, challenging photographed by Hardback, £40 the confidence to The Sunday Times 240 pages that he/she tends.’ Robin Lane Fox, 270 x 210mm experiment with 978-1-910258-13-2 gardening critic writing the author.’ The Irish Times Financial Times ‘Every page brings a 280 pages ornament and be bold Colour illustrations now. Every article here Country Life 978-1-910258-93-4 new wonder.’ throughout SPECIFICATIONS ‘Now here’s real glitz, with evergreen shapes.’ makes entertaining Colour illustrations Anna Pavord, reading as well as being SPECIFICATIONS Paperback, £30 throughout of a truly wonderful Tim Richardson, Hardback, £50 228 x 240mm House & Garden romantic kind.’ Gardens Illustrated well worth pondering.’ 270 x 210mm 264 pages Evening Standard 384 pages 978-1-910258-58-3 Stephen Anderston, SPECIFICATIONS SPECIFICATIONS Hardback, £50 978-1-910258-08-8 Colour illustrations Sunday Times Hardback, £40 SPECIFICATIONS Colour illustrations throughout 270 x 210mm 270 x 210mm 288 pages Paperback, £9.99 throughout SPECIFICATIONS 208 pages 198 x 129mm Paperback, £25 978-1-910258-18-7 978-1-910258-59-0 208 pages 285 x 230mm, 296 pages Colour illustrations Colour illustrations 978-1-910258-86-6 978-1-910258-26-2 throughout throughout Colour illustrations Rights sold: German throughout 14 15 BACKLIST BACKLIST

Architecture & Interiors Art & Craft

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