John Evelyn's "Elysium Britannicum" and European gardening /

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	Washington, D.C. : Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, c1998.
Description:	vii, 310 p. : ill. ; 29 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Evelyn, John, -- 1620-1706. -- Elysium Britannicum. Elysium Britannicum (Evelyn, John) Gardens -- England -- Design -- History -- 17th century. Gardens -- Europe -- Design -- History -- 17th century. Landscape architecture -- England -- History -- 17th century. Landscape architecture -- Europe -- History -- 17th century. Gardens -- Design. Landscape architecture. England. Europe. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/3238531

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Other authors / contributors:	O'Malley, Therese. Wolschke-Bulmahn, Joachim. Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium on the History of Landscape Architecture (17th : 1993)
ISBN:	0884022404
Notes:	Selected papers from the 17th Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium on the History of Landscape Architecture held in May 1993. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Table of Contents:

Foreword / Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn
Introduction to John Evelyn and the "Elysium Britannicum" / Therese O'Malley
John Evelyn's "Elysium Britannicum": Provenance, Condition, Transcription / John E. Ingram
John Evelyn: Between the Ancients and the Moderns / Joseph M. Levine
John Evelyn in the 1650s: A Virtuoso in Quest of a Role / Michael Hunter
"Elysium Britannicum not printed neere ready &c": The "Elysium Britannicum" in the Correspondence of John Evelyn / Douglas Chambers
"Bringing Ingenuity into Fashion": The "Elysium Britannicum" and the Reformation of Husbandry / Michael Leslie
John Evelyn and English Architecture / Alice T. Friedman
Parterre, Grove, and Flower Garden: European Horticulture and Planting Design in John Evelyn's Time / Mark Laird
The Plants in John Evelyn's "Elysium Britannicum" / John H. Harvey
Evelyn's Idea of the Garden: A Theory for All Seasons / John Dixon Hunt
App. A Plan by John Evelyn for Henry Howard's Garden at Albury Park, Surrey / Michael Charlesworth.

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