Main entry:

Ketcham, Diana.

Title & Author:

Le Désert de Retz : le jardin pittoresque de Monsieur de Monville = a late eighteenth-century French folly garden / by Diana Ketcham.

Publication:

San Francisco : Arion Press, 1990.

Description:

113 pages : illustrations, maps, plans ; 26 x 41 cm

Notes:
"A history of this landscape garden and its architectural monuments, including the false ruin, La Colonne Détruite, from its origins on the eve of the French Revolution to its present restoration; with a preface by Olivier Choppin de Janvry; providing texts in English and French; illustrated with historical views of the park and related sites, a facsimile of the 26 engravings of the Désert in Jardins anglo-chinois à la mode of Le Rouge from 1785, and 32 photographs of the grounds and fabriques from 1988 by Michael Kenna."
"This publication was instigated by G.B. Carson, whose collection of graphic and written materials about Le Désert de Retz was the resource for development of the project"--Title page verso.
"Limited to 400 copies for sale"--Colophon.
"The type is Cochin, composed in Monotype by M & H Type, San Francisco. The paper is Lustro dull-coated 100# text. The photo-lithography was done by Phelps-Schaefer Lithographics, Brisbane. The binding was done by the Cardoza-James Binding Company, San Francisco. The book was designed and produced under the direction of Andrew Hoyem"--Colophon.
LC has an unnumbered copy, signed by the photographer.
DLC
Source: Purchase, Mar. 23, 1990.
Includes bibliographical references (page 45).
Arion Press. Bibliography of the Arion Press, 30

Subject:

Monville, François Nicolas Henri Racine de, 1734-1797 Homes and haunts France Chambourcy.
Monville, François Nicolas Henri Racine de, 1734-1797
Gardens, English France Chambourcy History 18th century.
Jardins anglais France Chambourcy Histoire 18e siècle.
Gardens, English
Homes
Désert de Retz (Chambourcy, France)
France Chambourcy
France Chambourcy Désert de Retz

Form/genre:

History
Typefaces (Type evidence) Cochin (Monotype)

Added entries:

Kenna, Michael.
Hoyem, Andrew.
Arion Press, publisher.
M & H Type (Firm)
Phelps-Schaefer Lithographics.
Cardoza-James Binding Company.
Press Collection (Library of Congress)
Jardins anglo-chinois.

Jardin pittoresque de Monsieur de Monville

Holdings:

Location: Library main m 54166
Call No.: IDM; ID:90-B2761
Status: Available