The aim is to inform the reader of garden locations and of what may be seen. If the links to Style Diagrams are followed, the browser will find many examples of the identified styles. Eleven styles were named in the first edition and there are fourteen in this edition. The bibliographc references have been omitted. Readers who wish to consult them are likely to be in a library and will find the printed text more convenient.
Some bibliographic information is provided with the hyperlinks.
The change was made partly in the interests of geographical accuracy and partly with regard to the author s view that garden design is, and always has been, a Europe-wide art. One cannot make sense of stylistic developments through looking at a political entity. The Preface to the 1986 printed edition of this book made ' a personal plea for some restoration projects which would be of special historical value as examples of poorly represented styles'. But the nearby Privy Garden has been restored with the greatest possible care for historical accuracy. The Fountain Garden remains rather ugly but would have been very splendid - if restored in the manner of the Privy Garden.