Visions of Arcadia : European gardens from Renaissance to Rococo / text and photographs by May Woods
1996, First Edition. London : Aurum. Fine cloth copy with illustrated end-papers in an equally fine dw, now mylar-sleeved. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Copy is price-clipped.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 224 pages; Physical description. : 224 p. : ill. (some col. ), facsims. , plans (some col. ) ; 28 cm. Notes: Includes bibliography (p. 215-217) and index. Summary: A comparative study of garden building and concepts which traces the exchange of ideas across frontiers and shows parallel developments, and which gives information on many unusual and little-known gardens. Subject: Gardens - Europe - History. Gardens, Renaissance. Gardens, European - History. Gardens, Baroque. Gardens, Rococo. Item #199961
ISBN: 1854104292
Price: €21.95