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New principles of gardening: or, The laying out and planting parterres, groves, wildernesses, labyrinths, avenues, parks, &c. after a more grand and rural manner, than has been done before; With Experimental Directions For raising the several Kinds of

by LANGLEY, Batty (1696-1751)

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Book description: London: Printed for A. Bettesworth and J. Batley in Pater-Noster Row; J. Pemberton in Fleestreet; T. Bowles in St. Paul’s Church-Yard; J. Clarke, under the Royal Exchange; and J. Bowles at Mercer’s Hall in Cheapside, MDCC.XXVIII., 1728 . First Edition. Full Calf. Near Fine. First Edition (but, in fact, published in December 1727; see Henrey 927). 4to; [2], xvi, [8], 207, 191, [1]pp, with 28 copper-engraved folding plates drawn by Batty and Thomas Langley and engraved by Thomas Bowles and David Lockley. Title page in red and black; head- and tailpieces, decorated initials; pp iv-v erroneously numbered xi-x. Bound in early Cambridge-paneled calf with modern calf rebacking, the spine in six compartments decorated with narcissus in blind between raised bands; red morocco label gilt, date to foot of spine gilt. Small repair to front free end paper; repaired tear on frontispiece, damp stain to the upper corner of a few leaves and plates at front and rear, but overall an excellent, clean, crisp copy, the plates in deep rich impressions, all correctly folded, the binding tight and complete. ESTC list just 7 copies; OCLC adds only one. ESTC Citation No. T39919. OCLC Number: 166620592.  “The New principles is [Langley’s] most important contribution on the subject of gardening. It is the culmination of both his work at Twickenham Park for Thomas Vernon, and his brief directions for ‘anti-natural’ design published in Practical geometry (1726). As such it places him among the earliest exponents of the new style of irregular gardening... If the text of New principles is derivative its plates are the opposite. Inventiveness runs rampant in his designs for serpentines; he ‘confounds, surprises, varies and conceals the bounds’ beyond Pope’s wildest dreams.... The garden is not the only arena for Batty’s wanton, ‘anti-natural’ lines. He recommends them as ‘exceeding beautiful in building, as in ceilings, parquetting, painting, paving, &c. This, in 1726, is well in advance of Hogarth’s Line of Beauty and must be regarded as a first step towards the rococo style in England, a style to which Langley had a natural and lasting affinity.” (Harris & Savage, British Architectural Books and Writers, pp. 262—3.

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