The Making of Kew

First published in 1975, this short illustrated history traces the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew from adjacent royal riverside estates to a public scientific garden. Bingham follows Princess Augusta's botanic garden, the buildings and follies raised in the eighteenth century, the union of the Kew and Richmond grounds under George III, and the later work of Joseph Banks and the Hookers in turning the site into a center for plant collecting and classification. The book is an institutional sketch of one garden's making, not a botanical manual.

Bound in green glazed paper printed in colour. Green endleaves. Eighteen colour paintings and prints of Kew. No jacket or slipcase. Folio miniature -michael Joseph in association with the Folio Press.