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John Evelyn's "Elysium Britannicum" and European gardening / edited by Therese O'Malley and Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn.

Title: John Evelyn's "Elysium Britannicum" and European gardening / edited by Therese O'Malley and Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn.
Publication: Washington, D.C. : Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, ©1998.

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vii, 310 pages : illustrations; 29 cm

Summary

"John Evelyn (1620-1706), an English virtuoso and writer, was a pivotal figure in seventeenth-century intellectual life in England. He left an immensely rich literary heritage, which is of great significance for scholars interested in garden history and the histories of intellectual life and architecture." "Evelyn is perhaps best known for Sylva, a compilation of thoughts on practical estate management, gardening, and philosophy, and the first book published by the Royal Society in London. "Elysium Britannicum," Evelyn's unpublished manuscript of almost a thousand pages of densely packed drafts, rewrites, and projects, was perhaps something of an enigma to his contemporaries, who nevertheless urged its publication." "The contributors to this volume approach Evelyn and his work from diverse disciplines, including architectural and intellectual history and the histories of science, agriculture, gardens, and literature. They present a rich picture of the "Elysium Britannicum" as one of the central documents of late European humanism."--Jacket.

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k – Conference – v – publications.
Conference papers and proceedings
History
History (form)
Actes de congrès.

Note

Selected papers from the 17th Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium on the History of Landscape Architecture held in May 1993.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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committed to retain

Contents

Foreword / Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn -- Introduction to John Evelyn and the "Elysium Britannicum" / Therese O'Malley -- John Evelyn's "Elysium Britannicum" : provenance, condition, transcription / John E. Ingram -- John Evelyn : between the ancients and the moderns / Joseph M. Levine -- John Evelyn in the 1650s : a virtuoso in quest of a role / Michael Hunter -- "Elysium Britannicum not printed neere ready & c" : the "Elysium Britannicum" in the correspondence of John Evelyn / Douglas Chambers -- "Bringing ingenuity into fashion" : the "Elysium Britannicum" and the reformation of husbandry / Michael Leslie -- John Evelyn and English architecture / Alice T. Friedman -- Parterre, grove, and flower garden : European horticulture and planting design in John Evelyn's time / Mark Laird -- The plants in John Evelyn's "Elysium Britannicum" / John H. Harvey -- Evelyn's idea of the garden : a theory for all seasons / John Dixon Hunt -- Appendix: A plan by John Evelyn for Henry Howard's garden at Albury Park, Surrey / Michael Charlesworth -- Biographies of the authors.

ISBN

0884022404
9780884022404

LCCN

97010072

OCLC

36499096

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Harvard Library