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Published by J. ROTSCHILD, 1880
Seller: MBLIVRES, Orleans, France
Book First Edition
Couverture rigide. Condition: Très bon. Edition originale. traité pratique et didactique ( parcs jardins promenades étude historique principes de la composition des jardins, plantations, décoration pittoresque et artistique des parcs et jardins publics) sans date(vers 1880) grand in 4 reliure demi maroquin cerise dos à nerfs titré or quelques rousseurs.
Published by Paris: J.Rothschild, [1885]., 1885
Seller: D & E LAKE LTD. (ABAC/ILAB), Toronto, ON, Canada
Hardcover. folio. pp. xii, 364. over 500 wood-engravings in the text. wood-engraved armorial vignette on title. decorative initials & vignettes. original colour pictorial bds., top edge gilt (small nick to mid-spine, upper corners & spine ends little chipped, light foxing to outer leaves). Third and Best Edition, substantially revised and enlarged. The Baron Ernouf's work was first published in two small volumes in 1868, with a second edition following a few years later. The present illustrated edition was entirely re-edited with the assistance of Jean Charles Adolphe Alphand, Director of the Public Works of Paris, and borrows from his two-volume elphant folio Les Promenades De Paris, 1867-1873, which was one of the most sumptuously produced works on urban public gardens and parks. The first part is devoted to a history of gardens, those of ancient Greece, Rome, and Egypt, China, Japan, the Middle Ages, Italian Renaissance, France, and England, while the second is concerned with the principles governing irregular and landscape gardens, French formal gardens, modern parks and public squares, with discussion of terracing, plantings, trees and flowers, bridges, walkways, garden buildings, &c. There is a chapter on modern French parks, the Bois de Boulogne, the Bois de Vincennes, the Parcs des Buttes-Chaumont and Montsouris, and modern parks in Turkey, Egypt, and India. Vicaire III 590.