Beschreibung:

LE ROUGE, Georges-Louis (1712-c.1790). [Détail des nouveaux jardins à la mode. Paris: Chez Le Rouge, 1776-87.] Nearly 100 plates from “an exceptional document on the art of the 18th century garden, a source of the highest order for historians” (J.-N. Jeanneney, in Royet, p. 9). Georges-Louis Le Rouge, engineer and geographer to Louis XV and Louis XVI, was also a publisher of atlases, maps, and battle plans. In 1776 he began issuing this work devoted European and Chinese gardens, publishing parts (cahiers) periodically over the next several years; the final cahier XXI appeared in 1789. The entire series of 21 parts, each individually titled, comprises a total of some 492 engravings, most in oblong folio format, with numerous folded and double-paged plates. Included here are four parts: cahiers XIV-XVI, each entitled “Cahier des jardins chinois”; and cahier XVII, entitled “Cahier de jardins anglo-chinois.” Berlin Kat. 3312 (citing 19 cahiers); Inventaire du fonds français, Graveurs du XVIIIe siècle XV:56-72; see Veronique Royet et al., Le Rouge: Les Jardins anglo-chinois (Paris: Bibliothèque nationale de France, 2004) (citing 491 plates on p. 78). Four parts in two volumes, oblong folio (434 x 470mm and smaller). 99 engraved plates (of 491 or 492 in all 21 parts), comprising 11 plates in cahier XIV, 28 plates in cahier XV, 30 plates in cahier XVI, and 30 plates in cahier XVII (occasional light soiling; spotting and dampstains in cahier XIV, especially on plates 6 and 10; occasional marginal repairs, especially in preliminary and final plates of each cahier). Modern red quarter morocco (7 plates from cahier XIV removed from portfolio and now framed).