Essay on Modrn Gardening
Canton, Pennsylvania: The Kirgate Press, 1904. Limited Edition 300. Hardcover. Reprint of 1785 edition. Both French and English translations. Limited 300 copies made. Velum spine with paper boards. Cover and spine have gilt title. Deckled leaves. By a mile, this is the most brilliant and most influential essay ever written on English garden history. For two centuries it mapped the whole landscape of the subject. However, the author was partial in the highest degree. Horace Walpole believed in progress, in modernization, and the superiority of everything English to almost everything that had gone before. He had a special dislike of Baroque gardens, as exemplified by Versailles, which for him symbolized absolutism, tyranny, and the oppression of nature. 94pp.
CONDITION: Covers, front and back, show moderate edge wear and are cracked at gutter. Back cover also scuffed. Date written on half title page. Text is clear and text block is solid. Full refund if not satisfied. Very Good.
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Price: $120.00