
GARDEN-ARCHITECTURE - (PIERRE) BOITARD. Manuel de L'Architecture des Jardins ou L'Art de les Composer et de les Décorer Par M. Boitard. Ouvrage accompagné d'un Grand nombre de Planches. Nouvelle Edition. Atlas. Paris, Libraire Encyclopédique de Roret, n. d. (around 1845). Large 8vo-oblong. Fine later hcalf in old style with 4 raised bands. Halftitle (Encycl.-Roret Manual..). Titlepage and 133 engraved plates. Atlas only. First series numbered I-XII, second series numb. 1-120 (5 with double-numbering and 4 numbers not present). The first 36 plates in nice contemporary handcolouring. ¶ All aspects of laying out gardens are here described, landscapes, plants, buildings, pavillons, fountains, tents, pagodes, temples, volieres, houses, water-constructions, orangeries, winter-gardens, monuments etc. etc. Many of the plates divides in separate images and the handcolouring of the first parts of plates are charming. Graesse and Brunet having only earlier and smaller editions of what seems to be the same work.
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