English gardens and landscapes, 1700-1750 / Christopher Hussey
1967, First Edition. London : Country Life. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #447834
Physical description: 174 pages frontispiece, illustrations, 96 plates, maps 29 cm.
Notes: Illus. incl. plates, section, elevations and plans. Includes bibliographical references. 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.
Subjects: 1700-1799. Landscape architecture England History. Gardens, English History. Gardens England History 18th century.
Price: €45.00