Andre Le Notre - Garden Architect to Kings by Fox, Helen M - 1962

New York: Crown Publishers, 1962. Well illustrated, small quarto, pp 176, slightly age-toned, fore-edge a little foxed, an old remainder mark on the bottom edge, the title page a little more foxed and slightly marked in the gutter margin, cream cloth very slightly aged, the dustwrapper is not price-clipped but is chipped, creased and frayed, with a piece missing from the top of the upper cover. [Andre Le Notre (12 March 1613 – 15 September 1700), originally rendered as Andre Le Nostre, was a French landscape architect and the principal gardener of King Louis XIV of France. Most notably, he was the landscape architect who designed the park of the Palace of Versailles, and his work represents the height of the French formal garden style, or jardin a la française. Prior to working on Versailles, Le Notre collaborated with Louis Le Vau and Charles Le Brun on the park at Vaux-le-Vicomte. His other works include the design of gardens and parks at Chantilly, Fontainebleau, Saint-Cloud and Saint-Germain. His contribution to planning was also significant: at the Tuileries he extended the westward vista, which later became the avenue of the Champs-Elysées and comprise the Axe historique.]. First Edition. Cloth. Good/Rather worn and frayed.