Le Désert de Retz
Subtitle: le jardin pittoresque de Monsieur de Monville = a late eighteenth-century French folly garden
By: by Diana Ketcham.
Contributors: Kenna, Michael.; Arion Press.; Press Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Arion Press
Published: 1990
Place of publication: San Francisco
Language: eng
Number of pages: 113
Subjects: Monville, François Nicolas Henri Racine de, 1734-1797 -- Homes and haunts -- France -- Chambourcy.; Gardens, English -- France -- Chambourcy -- History -- 18th century.; Désert de Retz (Chambourcy, France)
Other titles: Jardin pittoresque de Monsieur de Monville.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 45.
"A history of this landscape garden and its architectural monuments, including the false ruin, La Colonne Détruite, from its origins on the eve of the French Revolution to its present restoration; with a preface by Olivier Choppin de Janvry; providing texts in English and French; illustrated with historical views of the park and related sites, a facsimile of the 26 engravings of the Désert in Jardins anglo-chinois à la mode of Le Rouge from 1785, and 32 photographs of the grounds and fabriques from 1988 by Michael Kenna."
"Limited to 400 copies for sale"--Colophon.
Accompanied by: Prospectus. [16] p. : ill. ; 21 x 26 cm. In English and French.
LC has an unnumbered copy, signed by the photographer.
Source: Purchase, Mar. 23, 1990.