Shelfmark
Cg.2.4.12
Author
Uniform title
[Essay on modern gardening. English & French]
Title
Essai sur l'art des jardins modernes, par M. Horace Walpole, traduit en fracois par M. le Duc de Nivernois, en MDCCLXXXIV.
Publication, distribution, etc.
[Twickenham] : Imprimé à Strawberry-Hill, par T. Kirgate, 1785.
Physical description
[3], 95p ; 4to.
Note
Text in English and French.
Note
Additional titlepage: "Essay on modern gardening, by Mr. Horace Walpole". Parallel English and French texts. An edition of 400 copies was printed. Even numbers on rectos.
Note
Printed by Edward Yardley, assistant to Kirgate.
Note
Extra-illustrated with three engravings.
Citation/references note
Hazen. Walpole, 31; ESTC T145371
Additional physical form available
Microfilm. Woodbridge, CT Research Publications, Inc., 1997 1 reel ; 35mm. (The Eighteenth Century ; reel 9203, no.05).
Provenance
Storer bequest label dated 1800; bequeathed to Eton by Anthony Morris Storer in 1799.
Binding
18th century red, gold-tooled morocco. Triple fillets, the innermost with indented half-circle corners.
Subject
Gardening Early works to 1800.
Subject
Landscape gardening Early works to 1800.
Added entry--name
Added entry--name
Storer, Anthony Morris, 1746 - 1799 former owner.
Added entry--place
England London.
Language code
eng fre
Identifier
B14044