Traité du iardinage selon les raisons de la nature et de l'art : divisé en trois livres : ensemble diuers desseins de parterres, pelouzes, bosquets, & autres ornemens seruans à l'embellissement des iardins
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Boyceau, the superintendent of royal gardens from 1602, was the era’s leading authority on garden design. His treatise was one of the first publications to discuss both the theoretical and practical aspects of French garden design. It is illustrated with some 60 patterns, including royal gardens at the Palais de Luxembourg, the Tuileries, and Versailles, where the prevailing fashion was for “parterres”—ornamental beds consisting mainly of colored gravel and clipped box shrubs laid out in imitation of elaborate embroidery patterns. Planned by Boyceau as a tribute to Louis XIII, the treatise was published after the author’s death by his nephew, Jacques de Menours.
Description
Author:
- La Barauderie, Jacques Boyceau de
- Lochom, Michel van, 1601-1647
- Vries, Adriaen de, ca. 1560-1626
- Huret, Grégoire, 1606-1670
- [1] leaf of plates, [5] p., [1] leaf of plates, 87 p., [87] leaves of plates : ill. (etchings, some folded), port. (etching with engraving) ; 41 cm. (fol.)
- À Paris : Chez Michel Vanlochom, ruë sainct Iacques, à la Rose blanche, M.DC.XXXVIII. [1638]
- Caption title: Traitté du iardinage selon les raisons de la nature et de l'art.
- Running title: Du iardinage.
- Added title page is all engraved; portrait of author is etching with much engraving; garden plates are etchings with more or less engraving.
- Added t.p. is signed "Michel van Lochom," portrait signed "A. de Vris, pinxit" and "Gr. Huret, f."; garden plates are unsigned.
- Woodcut initials and intaglio tail-pieces throughout letterpress text.
- Signatures: pi1,ã⁴,A-G⁴,H⁶,I-K⁴,L².
- Leaves of garden plates, at least in this copy, are arranged in quires of 6 leaves through leaf 48, with single 2-plate image at center of all but 1st and 8th quires; leaves 49-86 are double leaves, each pair printed from one large plate, and pasted at fold to stub in gutter; leaf 87 is quadruple leaf, printed on two pairs of double leaves, probably from two plates, and pasted together at long edge, then folded to size of book and pasted at edge to stub in gutter.
- Leaves of garden plates are numbered in pencil.
- Brunet, v.1, p. 1191.
- French
- Marquand Library, Princeton University . SB461 .B372 1638f
