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Middleton, Charles [Or] Thomas Elison

Decorations for Parks and Gardens; Designs for Gates, Garden Seats, Alcoves, Temples, Baths, Entrance Gates, Lodges, Facades, Prospect Towers, Cattle Sheds, Ruins, Bridges, Greenhouses, &c, also a Hot House & Hot Walls, with plans and scales

1800

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Year of publication
1800
Place of printing
London. J. Taylor
Author
Middleton, Charles [Or] Thomas Elison
Keyword
Gardening - Landscaping
Languages
English

Description

8vo [26 x 16 cm]; [ii], engraved title page, 55 engraved plates, some with two figures, garden plans. orig plain paper wraps (worn, tears, minor fraying, without spine), lightly foxed, title page chipped in margin, leaf with short tear, good complete copy in fine custom made, cloth covered box, with gilt title lettering on spine label, interior marbled p. An early work on garden ornament and buildings, plates being detailed, mostly with accompanying plans on lower part of sheet. Both Middleton and Elison have been named as the author. Berlin Katalog 3433. Scarce and not in the usual references.