The English Rococo garden / Michael Symes.

Main entry:

Symes, Michael.

Title & Author:

The English Rococo garden / Michael Symes.

Edition:

2nd ed.

Publication:

Princes Risborough : Shire, 2005.

Description:

80 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 21 cm.

Series:

Shire garden history ; 5

Notes:
Previous edition: 1991.
Includes bibliographical references and index.

Summary:

Delightful, eccentric, capricious, bizarre - the English Rococo garden, an intriguing branch of eighteenth-century horticulture, was all these and more. This book relates the components of the Rococo garden to movements in art and architecture that had developed in Britain and in Europe, and shows its appeal to amateur designers and owners.

ISBN:

074780625X (pbk.)
9780747806257 (pbk.)

Subject:

Gardens, Rococo England.
Gardens England History 18th century.
Gardens, English History.
Landscape gardening England History 18th century.
Jardins rococo Angleterre.
Jardins Angleterre Histoire 18e siècle.
Jardins anglais Histoire.
Jardins Architecture Angleterre Histoire 18e siècle.
Gardens.
Gardens, English.
Gardens, Rococo.
Landscape gardening.
England.

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Shire garden history ; 5.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 278962
Call No.: BIB 214756
Status: Available

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