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DELILLE, Jacques (1738-1813). Les Jardins ou l'art d'embellir les paysages, poëme. London: Le Bousonnier, 1801. 4° (285 x 222mm), half title, list of subscribers (occasional very light spotting and soiling), contemporary English red straight-grained morocco, richly gilt to a classical motif, spine ornately gilt, on sides outer Greek key border with a circular tool at the corners, frames of small floral tools, central compartment with wide fan ornaments composed of small tools, inner gilt decoration, purple silk doublures and endpapers with a gilt lyre at each corner, gilt edges (hinges and corners a little rubbed). Provenance: N. Fourgeaud-Lugrizem, 1862 (ownership inscription on front endpaper) -- Hans Furstenberg - Otto Schäfer copy.
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DELILLE, Jacques (1738-1813). Les Jardins ou l'art d'embellir les paysages, poëme. London: Le Bousonnier, 1801. 4° (285 x 222mm), half title, list of subscribers (occasional very light spotting and soiling), contemporary English red straight-grained morocco, richly gilt to a classical motif, spine ornately gilt, on sides outer Greek key border with a circular tool at the corners, frames of small floral tools, central compartment with wide fan ornaments composed of small tools, inner gilt decoration, purple silk doublures and endpapers with a gilt lyre at each corner, gilt edges (hinges and corners a little rubbed). Provenance: N. Fourgeaud-Lugrizem, 1862 (ownership inscription on front endpaper) -- Hans Furstenberg - Otto Schäfer copy.

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DELILLE, Jacques (1738-1813). Les Jardins ou l'art d'embellir les paysages, poëme. London: Le Bousonnier, 1801. 4° (285 x 222mm), half title, list of subscribers (occasional very light spotting and soiling), contemporary English red straight-grained morocco, richly gilt to a classical motif, spine ornately gilt, on sides outer Greek key border with a circular tool at the corners, frames of small floral tools, central compartment with wide fan ornaments composed of small tools, inner gilt decoration, purple silk doublures and endpapers with a gilt lyre at each corner, gilt edges (hinges and corners a little rubbed). Provenance: N. Fourgeaud-Lugrizem, 1862 (ownership inscription on front endpaper) -- Hans Furstenberg - Otto Schäfer copy.

The first complete edition of probably the most popular and influential poem on the appreciation and pleasure of gardens, first published in 1782 and here expanded by nearly 1,100 new verses. The Abbé Delille presents his views on how gardens should be designed and managed, with special preference given to landscape gardens (he detested formal gardens) and the relationships between gardening and painting. Hunt II, 702; Lindley Library 255; Brunet II, 576.
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