Gardens.- [Dezallier d'Argenville (Antoine)] The Theory and Practice of Gardening, second edition in English, translated by John James, title in red and black, 38 folding engraved plates, woodcut illustrations & tail-pieces, 3pp. advertisements at end, small worming to inner-margin of first 8ff., P2 tear into text neatly repaired but affecting couple letters, some light offsetting and occasional soiling, else good, contemporary calf, morocco spine label, lower corners worn, rubbed and marked, joints split but holding, [Fussell p.117; Henrey p.33 and 950 (under Le Blond); Hunt 471], 4to, for Bernard Lintot, 1728.
⁂ Important and influential work on French formal garden design. This edition has "very large Additions, and a new Treatise of Flowers and Orange-Trees". Includes mazes, summer-houses, fountains and cascades.
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