[Milton-L] landscape, 18th

John Shawcross elea48 at insightbb.com
Thu Jun 18 12:24:27 EDT 2009


Dear Louis,

The following will be helpful:
Giradin, René Louis, Marquis de. An Essay on Landscape; Or, On the  
means of Improving
    and Embellishing the Country Round Our Habitation, trans. Daniel  
Malthus. 1783.

Mason, George. An Essay on Design in Gardening, First Published in  
MDCCLXVIII. Now
    Greatly Augmented. 1795.

Montanier, Jacques, Abbé de Lille. Les Jardins, ou l'art d'embellir  
less paysages:
      Poème . 1782. [The Gardens, a poem. Translated from the French  
of the Abbé
     de Lille. 1798. Trans.: Mrs. Montolieu.]

Switzer, Stephen. The Nobleman, Gentleman, and Gardener's Recreation.  
1715.
     Reissued as Vol. I in the three-volume expanded Ichnographia  
Rustica: Or, the Nobleman,
    Genteman, and Gardener's Recreation, 1718. (Ed. 2, 1742).

Tyers, Thomas. An Historical Rhapsody on Mr. Pope. 1782. [Discusses  
Milton and
     Modern Gardening.]

  Walpole, Horace. Anecdotes of Painting in England . . . To which is  
added the History of
     Modern Taste in Gardening. 1771.

Zinzano, Nicholas. Paradice Regain'd: or, The Art of Gardening. A  
Poem. 1728. [This has,
     erroneously been attributed to John Laurence.]

John


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