Le Desert de Retz: A Late Eighteenth-Century French Folly Garden: The Artful Landscape of Monsieur de Monville
Cambridge, MA / London, England: MIT Press, 1994. Hardcover. Black cloth covers with gilt lettering, bw illustrated dust jacket with purple spine, 4 unnumbered pages, 135 pp, profusely illustrated in bw. VG/VG. Item #180135
ISBN: 9780262111867
Contents include: Le Desert de Retz -- The Construction of the Desert de Retz, 1774-1789 -- Sect. 2. Models from Antiquity and Analogs in Contemporary Gardens -- Sect. 3. The Desert in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries -- Sect. 4. The Restoration of the Desert de Retz, 1972-1993 -- Sect. 5. Plates from Le Rouge, Jardins anglo-chinois, 1785 -- Afterword / Olivier Choppin de Janvry. Includes bibliographical references (pages 130-132) and index.
OCLC: 29668238
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