Blenheim
Subtitle: landscape for a palace
By: edited by James Bond and Kate Tiller.
Contributors: Tiller, Kate.; Bond, James.; University of Oxford. Dept. for External Studies.
Publisher: A. Sutton; Oxford University Dept. for External Studies
Published: 1987
Place of publication: Gloucester; [Oxford, Oxfordshire]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 162
Subjects: Gardens, English -- England -- History -- Congresses.; Landscape architecture -- England -- History -- Congresses.; Blenheim Park (England) -- Congresses.
Genres: Congresses.
Notes: Articles are based on papers delivered at a symposium held in the Riding School at Blenheim Palace on 21 May 1983 to commemorate the bicentary of the death of Lancelot Brown.

Includes bibliographies.
Table of contents: value: Introduction / by Dorothy Stroud; value: Blenheim, the geographical setting / by James Bond; value: The Park before palace / by James Bond; value: Blenheim, the palace and gardens under Vanbrugh, Hawksmoor and Wise / by David Green; value: Blenheim after Vanbrugh / by David Green and James Bond; value: 'Capability' Brown at Blenheim / by Hal Moggridge; value: After 'Capability' Brown / by David Green, James Bond and Hal Moggridge; value: Blenheim, the contribution of Achille Duchêne and the ninth duke / by David Green; value: Blenheim, present management and future restoration /by Ralph Cobham and Paul Hutton; value: Some aspects of the natural history of Blenheim Park / by John Campbell.