Moor Park : with a biographical sketch of its principal proprietors

"The substance of the following Historical Sketch of Moor Park and its Owners was contained in a lecture which was delivered at Rickmansworth for the benefit of the inhabitants, and the meeting thought fit to request me to publish it. Since then I have considerably enlarged it...."--Page iii

"A history of Moor Park, a Palladian house surrounded by a large park in Hertsfordshire, England. The estate's gardens were made famous in the seventeenth century by Sir William Temple, who described them in his Upon the Garden of Epicurus, one of the key early modern texts on gardening. He called Moor Park "the sweetest Place [...] I have ever seen in my Life, either before or since, at Home or Abroad" [Quoted in [Sally] Jeffrey, p. 160]. His admiration of it was so complete, that he even renamed his own estate Moor Park. Throughout the centuries, Moor Park exchanged many hands, but the outline of the formal garden that so inspired William Temple, can still be recognized today. In the nineteenth century, the park became famous for its fruit. Jane Austen's Mansfield Park characters refer to the "moor park" apricot as a sign of wealth. Moor Park is also credited with cultivating the commercial strawberry, a hybrid between European strawberry and a Chilean species."--bookseller Martayan Lan Rare Books Inc. datasheet

"The owner of Moor Park at the time of the book's publication, Robert Grosvenor, Baron Ebury, is pictured in a photo in this book.... All the eight photos in this monograph are by Henri Victor Leménager (1822-1912), a Paris-born photographer, who had a photographic studio in Bushey Herts, Hertfordshire before he emigrated to the United States in 1887."--bookseller Martayan Lan Rare Books Inc. datasheet