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Plans des Plus Beaux Jardins Pittoresques de France, d'Angleterre et d'Allemagne . . . Plans of the Most Beautiful Picturesque Gardens in France, England and Germany, and of Edifices, Monuments, Fabrics, etc. which contribute to their Embellishment, of Ev
KRAFFT, JEAN CHARLES

Engraved frontispiece, 71 engraved plates, including 19 folding and 3 double-page, text in French, English and German; pencilled annotations for the most part taken from the printed descriptions, some light staining to the corners of some plates, tear on fold to one large folding plate,

Johann Carl Kraaft [1764-1833] produced a number of similar volume on European architecture. The plates provide well drawn and detailed plans of the gardens as well as including illustrations of garden houses, hermitages, fountains, sheep folds, dovecotes, aviaries, etc. Bound from 12 'cahiers' the illustrations are numbered to 96, the double-page and folding plates counting as more than one illustration. Each cahier is a section of plates with letterpress description and keys to the plates. The annotations were made before the book was bound. This volume includes plans of Stowe, Potsdam and Clichy.

Engraved frontispiece, 71 engraved plates, including 19 folding and 3 double-page, text in French, English and German; pencilled annotations for the most part taken from the printed descriptions, some light staining to the corners of some plates, tear on fold to one large folding plate,

Johann Carl Kraaft [1764-1833] produced a number of similar volume on European architecture. The plates provide well drawn and detailed plans of the gardens as well as including illustrations of garden houses, hermitages, fountains, sheep folds, dovecotes, aviaries, etc. Bound from 12 'cahiers' the illustrations are numbered to 96, the double-page and folding plates counting as more than one illustration. Each cahier is a section of plates with letterpress description and keys to the plates. The annotations were made before the book was bound. This volume includes plans of Stowe, Potsdam and Clichy.

Binding Large oblong folio (10. x 13.25in) old half calf, worn, covers detached backstrip missing,
Publication Paris, Charles Pougens, 1810. Berlin Kat. 3312a
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  • Product Code: RGW18776
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  • £550.00