terres,
[
sic
--
Ed.
] Groves, Bowling-Greens, &c. containing several Plans, and general Dispositions of Gardens, New Designs of Parterres, Groves,
Grass-plots, Mazes, Banqueting-Rooms, Galleries, Portico’s, and Summer-houses of Arbour-work, Terrasses, Stairs, Fountains,
Cascades, and other Ornaments of use in the Decoration and Embelishment of Gardens. With the Manner of making the Ground,
forming Designs suitable to the Place, and putting them in Execution, according to the Principles of Geometry. The Method
of Setting and Raising in little time, all the Plants requisite in fine Gardens: also the Way to find Water, to convey it
into Gardens, and to make Basons and Fountains for the same. Together with Remarks and General Rules in all that concerns
the Art of Gardening. By Le Sieur Alexander Le Blond. Done from the late Edition printed at Paris, by John James of Greenwich. The
Second Edition. With very large Additions, and a new Treatise of Flowers and Orange-Trees.
London: printed for
Bernard Lintot,
1728.
SB461 .D42 1728
4to. 162 leaves, numerous engraved folded plates chiefly by Van der Gucht, a few by K. Fletcher, woodcut illustrations in the text, title printed in red and black, followed by a leaf with the dedication to Arthur Onslow,
signed by John James, on the recto, Advertisement on this New Edition, 4 lines of Errata on the verso of the last preliminary leaf, list of Books
Printed for
Bernard Lintot on the last three pages.
Barbier IV, 706.
This translation not in Quérard.
Amherst, page 351.
This edition not in Felton.
Antoine Joseph Dezallier d’Argentville, 1680-1765, French artist, studied drawing under Bernard Picard and landscape architecture under Alexandre Le Blond whose
name appears on the title-page of this book. The original French edition was published in 1709 and the second and third in
1713 and 1732, in all of which the initials of the author appear in the title: Par L.S.A.I.D.A. [Le Sieur Antoine-Joseph Dezallier
D’Argentville]. In 1722 the retail booksellers decided the book would sell better with the name of an established authority
on the title-page, and therefore published an edition with the name Alexandre Le Blond substituted for the initials of the
real author. This error was repeated in subsequent editions until 1747, when Dezallier d’Argentville himself published an
edition with an explanation of the circumstances. The error was also repeated in the various translations which were issued.
Jean Baptiste Alexandre Le Blond, 1679-1719, French architect, was particularly interested in architecture and landscaping as applied to gardens. He was responsible
for the designs of a number of the plates in this volume, and his name was introduced on the title-page as the author by the
French booksellers, in the hope of improving the sales.
John James, d. 1746, English architect, was clerk of the works of Greenwich Hospital, master-carpenter at St. Paul’s Cathedral, surveyor
of Westminster Abbey, and the holder of other important positions. The first edition of his translation of this work was published
in 1703.
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Whateley’s Observations on modern gardening.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 132, no. 9, as above.
WHATELY,
Thomas.
Observations on Modern Gardening, illustrated by Descriptions . . . The
Second Edition.
London: printed for
T. Payne,
mdcclxx
. [1770.]
8vo. 268 leaves, the last a blank.
Halkett and Laing IV, 216.
Lowndes V, 2887.
Amherst, page 359.
Kimball, page 100.
This was one of the books bought by Jefferson in 1785, when in Paris, from the Reverend Samuel Henley, formerly professor
of moral philosophy at William and Mary College, but who settled in England at the outbreak of the Revolutionary War. [For
other books bought by Jefferson from this library, see the Index.] In
