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Le Désert de Retz : le jardin pittoresque de Monsieur de Monville : a late eighteenth-century French folly garden

Title
Le Désert de Retz : le jardin pittoresque de Monsieur de Monville : a late eighteenth-century French folly garden / by Diana Ketcham.
Author
Ketcham, Diana.
Publication
San Francisco : Arion Press, 1990.

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Additional Authors
  • Le Rouge, Georges-Louis.
  • Kenna, Michael.
  • Choppin de Janvry, Olivier.
Description
113 pages : illustrations, maps, plans; 27 x 42 cm
Alternative Title
Jardin pittoresque de Monsieur de Monville.
Subjects
Note
  • "A history of this landscape garden and its architectural monuments, including the false ruin, La Colonne détruite, from its origins on the eve of the French Revolution to its present restoration; with a preface by Olivier Choppin de Janvry; providing texts in English and French; illustrated with historical views of the park and related sites, a facsimile of the 26 engravings of the Désert in Jardins anglo-chinois à la mode of Le Rouge from 1785, and 32 photographs of the grounds and fabriques from 1988 by Michael Kenna."
  • "This is the thirtieth publication of the Arion Press. The edition is limited to 400 copies for sale ... The binding was done by the Cardoza-James Binding Company, San Francisco. The book was designed and produced under the direction of Andrew Hoyem"--Colophon.
Bibliography (note)
  • Bibliography: p. 45.
OCLC
  • 22382525
  • ocm22382525
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Columbia University Libraries