English Gardens and Landscapes 1700-1750
by Christopher Hussey
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- Seller
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Rochester, Kent, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Contents: The poetic garden -- English, Dutch and Baroque gardens -- Sources of the landscape garden -- Noblemen's recreation -- The poet and the painter -- Palladian bridges -- Powis Castle, Montgomeryshire -- Melbourne Hall, Derbyshire -- Ebbertson Hall, Yorkshire -- Bramham Park, Yorkshire -- Cirencester Park, Gloucestershire -- St Paul's Walden Bury, Hertfordshire -- Stowe, Buckinghamshire: "A place to wonder at;" Bridgeman and Vanbruch (1713-1738); Kent and Gibbs (1733-1750); Princely recreation -- Castle Howard, Yorkshire: The sublime Elysium; The site and the house; The genesis of landscape; From Hawksmoor to Nesfield -- Studley Royal, Yorkshire -- Duncombe Park, Yorkshire -- Rousham, Oxfordshire -- Euston Hall, Suffolk -- Stourhead, Wiltshire. 174 pages, frontispiece, illustrations, 96 plates, maps ; 29 cm. First edition, first printing. Green cloth boards, unclipped dust jacket (now in a removable protective sleeve). Shelf wear and a couple of closed tears to edges, bookplate of Iain Gordon Brown FSA on fron pastedown, tight and square binding. Photographs available on request. All books dispatched same or next working day in robust packaging.
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- Bookseller
- Springhead Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 014788
- Title
- English Gardens and Landscapes 1700-1750
- Author
- Christopher Hussey
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Country Life Limited
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1967
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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