Les jardins ou l art d embellir les paysages, poëme. Nouvelle édition, revue, corrigée, et considérablement augmentée. Nouvelle édition, revue, corrigée et augmentée

Delille, M. L Abbé

Published by de L’Imprimerie de Ph. Le Boussonier, No. 5, Hollen Street, Soho Square, Londres, 1801

About this Item

First complete edition, with the addition of better than 1100 lines over the first edition; 4to, pp. [4], iv, xxii, 143, [1], xii; original blue paper-covered boards, cream paper shelfback; manuscript title on spine; very nice copy. First published in octavo in 1782 in Paris, the book enjoyed a long and popular run, and was still in print as late a 1844. In 1801 alone there were three editions one in duodecimo, one in octavo, and this handsome quarto. And, there were many translations of the poem: into Polish (1783); three into Italian (1792, 1794, 1808); into German (1796); into Portuguese (1800); and three into Russian (1804, 1814, 1816). Inspired by Virgil's The Georgics (which he translated) and Nicolas Rapin's The Art of Gardens, this work brought Delille to the height of his notoriety. He praises and poetically describes the English garden, with its immense landscaped parks made up of trees and bodies of water.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Les jardins ou l art d embellir les paysages, poëme. Nouvelle édition, revue, corrigée, et considérablement augmentée. Nouvelle édition, revue, corrigée et augmentée
• Publisher: de L Imprimerie de Ph. Le Boussonier, No. 5, Hollen Street, Soho Square, Londres
• Publication Date: 1801
• Seller catalogs:
  • Natural History
  • English Literature
  • Poetry