Titre et auteur:

Stow : the gardens of the Right Honourable the Lord Viscount Cobham ...

Publication:

London : Printed for B. Seeley, Bookseller in Buckingham, and sold by John and James Rivington, in St. Paul's Church-yard, and Robert Sayer, opposite Fetter Lane, Fleet Street, [1751]

Description:

[4], [4], 28 pages, 11 unnumbered leaves of plates (1 folded) : illustrations ; 20 cm

Notes:
Added t.p.: Dialogue containing a description of thegardens of the Right Honourable the Lord Viscount Cobham ... -- Third edition. -- London, 1751.
Date from added t.p.
Plates are dated 1750.
Dialogue ... is by William Gilpin.
(from t. p.) I. Forty views of the temples and other ornamental buildings in the said gardens, as also two views of the house -- II. A description of all the buildings, copies of the inscriptions, and translations of them -- III. A dialogue upon the said gardens.

Ressources:
Donor bookplate

Sujet:

Cobham, Richard Temple, Viscount, 1669?-1749.
Stowe House (England)
Architecture, Domestic Great Britain.
Gardens Great Britain.
Jardins Grande-Bretagne.
Architecture, Domestic.
Gardens.
Great Britain.

Vedettes secondaires:

Vertue, George, 1684-1756, engraver.
Van der Gucht, Gerard, 1696-1776, engraver.
Seeley, Benton, illustrator.
Gilpin, William, 1724-1804. Dialogue containing a description of the gardens of the Right Honourable the Lord Viscount Cobham.

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Localisation: Bibliothèque cage harris 185895
Cote: ID87B17172
Statut: Disponible