Scarce Architectural Treatise by John Loudon
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Author: Loudon, John
Title: A Treatise on Forming, Improving, and Managing Country Residences; and on the Choice of Situations Appropriate to Every Class of Purchasers... in Constructing or Improving Mansions, and Other Rural Buildings...
Place Published: London
Publisher:Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme
Date Published: 1806
Description:
Author: Loudon, John
Title: A Treatise on Forming, Improving, and Managing Country Residences; and on the Choice of Situations Appropriate to Every Class of Purchasers... in Constructing or Improving Mansions, and Other Rural Buildings...
Place Published: London
Publisher:Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme
Date Published: 1806
Description:
2 volumes. xii, [xlii], 353; [iv], 355-723, [viii] pp. With 33 engraved plates. 26x20.2 cm (10½x8"), period quarter leather with boards. First Edition.
The major theoretical work of Loudon's early (pre-rheumatic fever) period, strongly advocating the ideas of Uvedale Price and critical of those of Capability Brown. The appendix is an inspired criticism of Repton's writings and his "mode of shewing effects by slides and sketches, and structures on his opinions and practice in landscape gardening." Loudon was correctly described by his American admirer A. J. Downing as "the most distinguished gardening author of the age." A very good capsule summary of his career and writings is given in the Oxford Companion to Gardens, pp. 344--5.
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Wear and rubbing to boards and spine, spines chipped with large section missing from vol. II, joints cracking; hinges cracked; foxing, offsetting from plates; very good.
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Scarce Architectural Treatise by John Loudon
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