Book ID: 43919
LIGNE, Charles-Joseph de
Coup d'Oeil at Beloeil and a Great Number of European Gardens. Translated and edited by Basis Guy. 1991. 159 illustr. XVII,295 P.4to.Cloth.
This new critical edition presents the 1795 version of Ligne's masterwork, his garden treatise on Boloeil and the great gardens ofEurope. Designed by Wolfgang Lederer and elegantly illustrated fromsources Ligne himself might have known, this extensively annotatedtranslation will introduce a new generation of readers to Ligne'sintelligence and wit as well as his ideas on gardens. The charm andvivacity of the Prince's anecdotes and pithy observations lead onethrough his own beloved gardens to a Grand Tour of European culture inthe eighteenth century.