Lot 14: BROOKE, E. ADVENO.

THE GARDENS OF ENGLAND. .LONDON: T. MCLEAN, [1857].
First edition, folio (535 x 365mm.), chromolithographed title-page, lithographed dedication leaf, letterpress text, 16 lithographed vignettes on india paper pasted into text, 25 chromolithographed plates heightened with gum arabic, original green morocco-backed green cloth, title within leafy frame stamped in gilt on upper cover, spotted, several plates loose, second Bowood vignette shaved at foot, plate of Elvaston Castle frayed and soiled at edges, extremities slightly rubbed

Abbey, Scenery 392

Baron Meyer de Rothschild (1818-1874), Mentmore, Buckinghamshire, thence by descent to his son-in-law; 5th Earl of Rosebery

The magnificent gardens depicted include those at Trentham Hall, Enville Hall, Bowood House, Alton Towers, Elvaston Castle, Shrublands Hall, Woburn Abbey, Worlsey Hall, Eaton Hall, Holkham House, Teddesley House, Castle Howard, Westfield House, Wilton, Harewood House, Nuneham, and Castle Coombe.

Brooke was an exhibitor at the Royal Academy and British Institution in the period between 1853 and 1864.