The Theory And Practice Of Gardening: Wherein is fully handled All that relates to Fine Gardens, Commonly Called Pleasure-Gardens ...
A 1728 gardening treatise by Antoine Joseph Dézallier d'Argenville, edited by Alexandre LeBlond and published for garden designers and landowners, written in French and translated into English for the English-speaking market. The plates are engraved ground plans of formal pleasure gardens, showing parterres, bosquets, walks and fountains drawn as flat diagrams. A designer might take from them the geometric layouts of knot gardens, star-shaped compartments and axial symmetry that organise space in early eighteenth-century gardens.
