Le Désert de Retz
Subtitle: le jardin pittoresque de Monsieur de Monville : a late eighteenth-century French folly garden
By: by Diana Ketcham
Contributors: Le Rouge, Georges-Louis; Kenna, Michael; Choppin de Janvry, Olivier
Publisher: Arion Press
Published: 1990
Place of publication: San Francisco
Language: eng; fre
Number of pages: 113
Subjects: History; In art; Gardens; Follies (Architecture)
Other titles: Jardin pittoresque de Monsieur de Monville.
Notes: "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."

"This is the thirtieth publication of the Arion Press. The edition is limited to 400 copies for sale ... The binding was done by the Cardoza-James Binding Company, San Francisco. The book was designed and produced under the direction of Andrew Hoyem"--Colophon.

Bibliography: p. 45.