It was not an easy matter to have this portrait photographed, because when the Hall of the Worshipful Company of Ironmongers was destroyed by a German bomb in 1917 the rescued portrait was stored in the National Gallery. Access to the portrait was very difficult, and it was only through the great kindness of officials and personal friends that a reproduction was made possible.
I wish, therefore, to thank the Worshipful Company of Ironmongers for the gracious permission to have the portrait photographed and to express my gratitude to Mr. Collins Baker, keeper of the National Gallery, and to Mr. Ambrose, chief clerk and secretary of the National Gallery, for their kind co-operation; to Mr. C. W. Carey, curator of the Royal Holloway College Gallery, who spent two days in photographing the masterpiece; and also to Sir Evan Spicer of the Dulwich Gallery and to my sister, Mrs. Carrington, through whose joint efforts the arrangements were perfected.
I also wish to thank the Trustees and Guardians of Shakespeare's Birthplace, who, through their Secretary, Mr. F. C. Wellstood, have supplied me with several photographs of the Shakespeare Garden at Stratford-upon-Avon, especially taken for this book, with permission for their reproduction.
E. S.
CONTENTS
PART ONE
THE GARDEN OF DELIGHT
| PAGE | ||
| Evolution of the Shakespeare Garden | [3] | |
| [I.] | The Medieval Pleasance | 3 |
| [II.] | Garden of Delight | 11 |
| [III.] | The Italian Renaissance Garden | 15 |
| [IV.] | Bagh-i-Vafa | 19 |
| [V.] | New Fad for Flowers | 21 |
| [VI.] | Tudor Gardens | 25 |
| [VII.] | Garden Pleasures | 29 |
| The Curious Knotted Garden | [31] | |
| [I.] | Flower Lovers and Herbalists | 31 |
| [II.] | The Elizabethan Garden | 40 |
| [III.] | Old Garden Authors | 68 |
| [IV.] | "Outlandish" and English Flowers | 78 |
PART TWO