De la composition des parcs et jardins pittoresques ouvrage utile et instructif pour les propriétaires et les amateurs, et orné de planches en noir ou coloriées
A French landscape gardening manual by J. Lalos, published in Paris in 1824 for garden owners and amateurs, illustrated with lithographed views of parks. The pictures show picturesque park scenes: a stone arched bridge over water, a small gazebo on a rock, a plan of a park with curving paths and a lake, and pastoral scenes of grazing cattle and carriages. A designer might take from them the naturalistic layout of meandering paths, clustered trees, and gentle water edges typical of early nineteenth-century romantic gardens.
