English Gardens and Landscapes 1700-1750 by Hussey, Christopher - 1967

N.Y.: Funk & Wagnalls, 1967. Hardcover book, 9" x 11.25", dust wrapper is sunned at margins, chipped at top of spine and has 3 small pieces missing on back panel -- good+; text is near fine - (personal bookplate inside cover) and very light age toning to outer margins); 174 pp., 246 illustrations and 11 diagrams in the text (dnf) 3lbs

Country Life Limited, 1967. Hardcover. Very Good. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Minor shelf and handling wear, overall a clean solid copy with minimal signs of use. Secure packaging for safe delivery.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

London: Country Life, 1967. Hardcover. Very Good- Dj has fading, staining, tearing. Cover has general wear.. Green cloth boards, illustrated dj. 174 pages frontispiece, illustrations, 96 plates, maps. Includes bibliographical references.

New York: Funk & Wagnalls. Fine copy in very good dust jacket. 1967. 1st. hardcover. 4to, 174 pp.+plates, Spine of dust jacket faded. .

New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1967. hardcover. near fine/near fine. Illustrated with 246 photographs and 11 text diagrams. 174 pages. Thin 4to, green cloth, d.w. New York: Funk & Wagnalls, (1967). First American edition. Ownership signature, still a near fine copy in a near fine dust wrapper.<br/><br/> "Illustrates the principal gardens and garden architecture attached to country houses during the first half of the 18th century and relates them to the revolution of ideas that in England was then transforming gardens into landscapes."<br/><br/>

Country Life. Good. 1967. Hardcover. Green cloth edge worn, small stains. Dj spine faded, edge worn and lightly soiled, small edge chips, small triangular tear to spine; spine a little faded. Paper toned, end paper smudged, occsional margin smudging. THE book on this period.; 11.1 X 8.7 X 1.3 inches; 174 pages .

Contents: The poetic garden -- English, Dutch and Baroque gardens -- Sources of the landscape garden -- Noblemen's recreation -- The poet and the painter -- Palladian bridges -- Powis Castle, Montgomeryshire -- Melbourne Hall, Derbyshire -- Ebbertson Hall, Yorkshire -- Bramham Park, Yorkshire -- Cirencester Park, Gloucestershire -- St Paul's Walden Bury, Hertfordshire -- Stowe, Buckinghamshire: "A place to wonder at;" Bridgeman and Vanbruch (1713-1738); Kent and Gibbs (1733-1750); Princely recreation -- Castle Howard, Yorkshire: The sublime Elysium; The site and the house; The genesis of landscape; From Hawksmoor to Nesfield -- Studley Royal, Yorkshire -- Duncombe Park, Yorkshire -- Rousham, Oxfordshire -- Euston Hall, Suffolk -- Stourhead, Wiltshire. 174 pages, frontispiece, illustrations, 96 plates, maps ; 29 cm. First edition, first printing. Green cloth boards, unclipped dust jacket (now in a removable protective sleeve). Shelf wear and a couple of closed tears to edges, bookplate of Iain Gordon… Read More