You are viewing a rare copy of The Chinese Garden by Maggie Keswick that I have posted in my Ebay Store.

This is the Second Impression Hardcover from 1980.

After reading Maggie Keswick’s sensitive study one is tempted to run off to Suzhou using The Chinese Garden as a spiritual guidebook.

Chinese gardens are high among the wonders of Chinese art, but they do not receive the attention they deserve.

The late Maggie Keswick’s well-received original volume of the same title was a tour-de-force of insight.

Twenty-five years ago, at the prompting of her husband, Charles Jencks, British designer Maggie Keswick set about explaining to Western readers the ancient logic and symbolism of Chinese gardens.

She did it with rare empathy.

The only child of Sir John Keswick, chairman of a trading company with roots in the Orient going back to the Opium Wars, she had spent much of her childhood in and out of China.

The Chinese Garden was so enlightening it was reissued…giving Keswick a crack at a new generation.

Her introduction to this strange and beautiful world was so good, her touch so light, one could only nod, smile and turn the page for a fresh delight.