Le Désert de Retz
Subtitle: le jardin pittoresque de Monsieur de Monville : a late eighteenth-century folly garden : 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 ...
By: by Diana Ketcham ; with a preface by Olivier Choppin de Janvry ; [photographs] by Michael Kenna
Contributors: Le Rouge, Georges-Louis.; Choppin de Janvry, Olivier; Kenna, Michael
Publisher: Arion Press
Published: 1990
Place of publication: San Francisco, CA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 113
Subjects: Monville, François Nicolas Henri Racine de, -- 1734-1797 -- Homes and haunts; Historic gardens -- France -- Retz; Follies (Architecture) -- France -- Retz; Landscape architecture -- France -- Retz -- History; Désert de Retz (Retz, France)
Other titles: Jardin pittoresque de Monsieur de Monville; Jardins anglo-chinois; Jardins à la mode
Notes: "[Includes] a facsimile of the 26 engravings of the Désert in Jardins anglo-chinois à la mode of Le Rouge from 1785."

This edition is limited to 400 copies

Includes bibliographical references (p. 45)

Spec Collection copy signed by Michael Kenna