De l'Art des Jardins du XVe au XXe Siècle

Book Description

Paris: Emile -Paul,. 1911. Folio. H Vellum and Boards.. Very Good.. Very Good. Architecture & Landscape Design Paris: Émile-Paul, 1911. Folio, contemporary vellum and patterned boards, bellum label on front cover; binding darkened, minor spine chipping. Original pictorial front wrapper bound in. Limited editio n, one of an unspecified number for presentation. This copy with special presentation inscription on half-title from A. duchene, one of the collaborators (his name app earing on the colophon). With 254 pages lavishly illustrated with several hundred full page and smaller phototype plates, plans, photographs, drawings and facsimiles. French garden art from the Middle Ages and Renaissance to Le Nôtre and up to contemporary French and European garden design, tracing early influences. A handsome book, scarcer than its sequel, Des Divers Styles de Jardins. Signed: I Signed by Author(s)

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