Author: Boitard, Pierre
Title: Traite de la composition et de L'ornement des Jardins.
Description: Avec 96 planches representant des plans de Jardins, Des fabriques propres a leur decoration, et des machines pour elever les eaux. Ouvrage faisant suite a L'amanach du bon jardinier. Troisieme edition, entierement refondue, par M.Boitard...Paris by Audot. 1825. with 156pp. frontispiece of a decorated greenhouse, 97 plates and two pages of advertisements.Many of the plates contain four separate images, including a wide variety of garden plans, designs for fanciful gardens, pavilions, fountains, monuments, bridges, temples and hydraulic machines for water delivery. Styles include Chinese pagodas, obelisks, cla ssic and Gothic structures. Marie Antoinette's Petit Trianon is included.The text gives instructions on laying out gardens, plantings, use of water and rocks and "perspective artificielle". New bound. Some waterstaine.

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