Essai sur les jardins
By: par M. Watelet ...
Contributors: Prault, Laurent François, 1712-1780
Publisher: Chez Prault ..., Saillant & Nyon ..., Pissot ...
Published: 1774
Place of publication: A Paris
Language: fre
Number of pages: 160
Subjects: Early works to 1800; Gardens
Notes: Head- and tail-pieces.

Getty c. 2 bears t.p. date 1764. This apparently reflects an early state of the edition, as text is otherwise identical to c. 1 with t.p. date 1774. In both copies Approbation is dated 11 Septembre 1774 (p. [161]) and Privilege is dated 16 Novembre 1774 (p. [163]).

Binding, c. 1: sprinkled tan paper, with back and corners of calfskin. Spine tooled in gilt with title on red label. Page edges green. Red silk ribbon place marker.

Binding, c. 2: modern marbled paper. Page edges red. Four-line inscription in French on 2nd front free endpaper recto.