English Garden Eccentrics: Three Hundred Years of Extraordinary Groves, Burrowings, Mountains and Menageries Prisse first embarked on his

Prisse first embarked on his explorations in 1836

as a form of autobiography

Tiepolo in Milan: The Lost Frescoes of Palazzo Archinto brings together preparatory drawings and paintings

taken between 1897 and the late 1930s

these two tomes make up a truly complete survey of Egyptian art

English Garden Eccentrics: Three Hundred Years of Extraordinary Groves, Burrowings, Mountains and Menageries Prisse first embarked on hisA highly original study of eccentric English garden makers and their extraordinary gardens In his new book, English Garden Eccentrics, renowned landscape architect and historian Todd Longstaffe Gowan reveals a series of obscure and eccentric English garden makers who, between the early seventeenth and the early twentieth centuries, created intensely personal and idiosyncratic gardens. They include such fascinating characters as the superstitious