Hunt, John Dixon. (Ed.). The Garden at Stowe. The English Landscape Garden. 1st. Ed. Pub. Garland. 1982
8vo. Hardback. This is a single volume which presents the facsimiles of important documents and descriptions of the gardens of Stowe in Buckinghamshire, together with facsimiles of engraved plans and views. This item allows the reader to trace, the changes in taste in one garden during the main years of the English landscape garden movement. With the bookplate of Nigel Temple. A thoroughly very good copy. Scarce.
The six facsimile works comprised herein are Gilbert West’s “Stowe, the Gardens of the Right Honorable Richard Lord Viscount Cobham” (1732); Daniel Defoe’s “Appendix on six gardens from A Tour thro’ the Whole Island of Great Britain” (1742); William Gilpin’s “A Dialogue upon the Gardens of the Right Honourable the Lord Viscount Cobham at Stow” (1748); George Bickham’s “The Beauties of Stow” (1753); Benton Seeley’s “Stowe: a description” (1777) and then lastly, a later revised edition of Benton Seeley’s “Stowe: a description” (1797).
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