Les jardins ou l’art d’embellir les paysages, poëme. Nouvelle édition, revue, corrigée, et considérablement augmentée. Nouvelle édition, revue, corrigée et augmentée

by M. L’Abbé Delille

$750 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

First edition

Londres: de L’Imprimerie de Ph. Le Boussonier, No. 5, Hollen Street, Soho Square, 1801. First complete edition, with the addition of better than 1100 lines over the first edition; 4to, pp. 4 , iv, xxii, 143, 1 , xii; original blue paper-covered boards, cream paper shelfback; manuscript title on spine; very nice copy. First published in octavo in 1782 in Paris, the book enjoyed a long and popular run, and was still in print as late a 1844. In 1801 alone

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