BLOMFIELD, Reginald.   THE FORMAL GARDEN IN ENGLAND.         London: MacMillan & Co.   1892.          Second (and best) edition. Illustrations by F. Inigo Thomas. A key work in the formal garden revival. This is the only edition to contain Blomfield's seventeen page rebuttal to the attacks against this book (and Sedding's before it) made by William Robinson in his GARDEN DESIGN AND ARCHITECT'S GARDENS (1892).   12mo (19.5 x 13 cm); xxx + 249 pp. (+ 2 pp. ads) with 66 illustrations.            Original white linen with gilt cover decoration; spine darkened, light spotting of covers; head and heel of spine worn; occasional minor margin notations and one or two short instances of underlining; some foxing. $80.00

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