La theorie et la pratique du jardinage : ou l'on traite a fond des beaux jardins appellés communément les jardins de propreté, comme sont les parterres, les bosquets, les boulingrins, &c. / contenant plusieurs plans et dispositions generales de jardins ; nouveaux desseins ... & autres ornemens servant à la décoration & embélissement des jardins ....

Main entry:

Dézallier d'Argenville, A.-J. (Antoine-Joseph), 1680-1765.

Title & Author:

Edition:

[First ed.].

Publication:

Paris : J. Mariette, 1709.

Description:

[8], 208 pages, [32] leaves of plates (some folded) : illustrations ; 26 cm

Notes:
Authority for author's name: Barbier, A.A. Dictionnaire des ouvrages anonymes. 3.éd. Paris, 1872-1879.
"This book, in which the methods of the great Le Notre were reduced to a system, remains to this day the standard authority on the formal garden. It was written by D'Argenville the elder under the instructions and supervision of the architect J.B. Alexandre Le Blond, with whose designs, engraved by Mariette, the book is illustrated"--Fowler & Baer, p. 43.
"Written by D'Argenville the elder under the instructions and supervision of the architect J. B. Alexandre Le Blond, with whose designs, engraved by Mariette, the book is illustrated."--Fowler Cat., no. 170.
Microfilm. New Haven : Research Publications, [1979]. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. (Fowler collection of early architectural books ; reel 30, no. 170).

Subject:

Gardening.
Landscape gardening.
Jardinage.
Jardins Architecture.
gardening.
landscape gardening.

Added entries:

Le Blond, Jean-Baptiste-Alexandre, 1679-1719.
Le Blond, Alexandre Jean Baptiste, 1679-1719.
Fowler collection of early architectural books ; reel 30, no. 170.

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Location: Library study room microform 28482
Call No.: ID88B11700s30 MFM; ID:88-B14252
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