Essai sur l'art des jardins modernes
Details
Type of record: Book
Title: Essai sur l'art des jardins modernes
Other titles: History of the modern taste in gardening; Essay on modern gardening
Classmark: Bedford Collection B298
Creator(s): Walpole, Horace (1717-1797)
Additional creator(s): Walpole, Horace (1717-1797) (Other); Nivernais, Louis Jules Barbon Mancini-Mazarini duc de (1716-1798) (Other); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019) (Former owner)
Publisher: Imprimé à Strawberry-Hill, par T. Kirgate
Publication city: [Twickenham]
Date(s): MDCCLXXXV [1785]
Language: French
Size and medium: [ii], 94 pages
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/729673
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991016754819705181
Collection group(s): John Evan Bedford Library of Furniture History
Description
Even numbers on rectos.
Printed by Edward Yardley, assistant to Kirgate.
An edition of 400 copies printed.
Indexed in: ESTC
Indexed in: Hazen. Walpole,
Features
Bindings
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection B298: modern [20th century] half calf, marbled paper over boards, gold tooled on spine.
Provenance
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection B298: From the John Evan Bedford Library, gifted in 2019. Twenty-first-century pictorial bookplate on front pastedown: John Evan Bedford. Former reference: GH/5.
Access and usage
Access
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