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Full tree-calf leather with applied label on spine, marbled endpapers. Title-page, 30 pp. text followed by 20 plates; followed by 30 plates; followed by 27 plates; followed by 28 plates. Somne plates are folding. All are copper engravings and strongly printed. A bound volume containing parts 5e (20 plates with preceding text and title-page dated 1776 OCLC:7002766)), 6e (30 plates, attributed to 1777 OCLC::243866240), 7e (27 plates, attributed to 1779 OCLC:1268266935) and 8e (28 plates, attributed to 1781 by date on plate 15 OCLC: 1268267851). This series was begun by Le Rouge in 1770 and spanned to 1787 over the course of 21 separate issues. Volume 5 was the only issue published with any text of the four issues offered here, so the four issues are all complete. The following borrowed in it's machine-translated entirety from Venator and Hanstein (2022): A series of the extensively featured standard work on garden architecture. It contains a magnificent collection of plans of well-known and less well-preserved garden works of art from English, French and Chinese gardens from the second half of the 18th century. Created and edited in individual deliveries in different formats and often with different titles by the Hanover-born military geographer Le Rouge (around 1707 - 1790), it can only be found in its entirety in a few libraries. The booklets were used by kings and princes like a sample catalog, "In this respect they were fashion makers and aesthetic trendsetters right up to the highest circles, throughout Europe" (M. Niedermeier). Le Rouge presents, often based on designs from third parties, gardens and garden buildings from Versailles, Marly, Bagatelle, Monceau, Ermonville, Chantilly, Chiswick, Désert de Retz, Vauxhall, Richmond, Claremont, West Wycombe, Wilton House, Hanover, Sanssouci, Würzburg , Schwetzingen, Kassel, Karlsruhe, Burgsteinfurt, Vienna, Monrepos (Neuwied), Bayreuth, Laxenburg as well as a variety of views of Chinese imperial gardens and model buildings from garden follies à la fashion. However, ". to save space, he sometimes printed templates upside down, reduced or halved them (e.g. issue V, William Chambers). A garden view, e.g. For reasons of space, Le Rouge positioned that of the "New Palace of Sanssouci Potsdam" in the basin of the garden of Marly (VII, 4). In other models he omitted painterly details of the landscape background and additional decorations such as "clouds" (M. Niedermeier). - The engraved titles, texts and tables are sorted within the panel count, including in booklet VII with a table listing tree species according to height . In order to meet the increasing interest of the French population in William Chambers' garden style, Le Rouge also published booklet V separately with Chambers' 30-page text in this reduced format. The booklet is based on the original English edition "Designs of Chinese Buildings" (1757) (see Millard Coll., French 50). - With its variety of motifs and views, Le Rouge's garden work is seen as an enriching, visual addition to the garden theory works that were current at the time, even if it was understood by experts as a more commercially oriented project. VG, very minor imperfection noted in 2 plates from wonky fold but nothing treacherous to the whole. Overall a strong and vibrant copy. Seller Inventory # 198344
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