DUMBARTON OAKS COLLOQUIUM ON THE HISTORY OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE
Cover: John Evelyn’s “Elysium Britannicum” and European Gardening, from Harvard University PressCover: John Evelyn’s “Elysium Britannicum” and European Gardening in HARDCOVER

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John Evelyn’s “Elysium Britannicum” and European Gardening

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$45.00 • £39.95 • €40.95

ISBN 9780884022404

Publication Date: 01/01/1998

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  • Acknowledgments
  • 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]
  • Appendix: A Plan by John Evelyn for Henry Howard’s Garden at Albury Park, Surrey [Michael Charlesworth]
  • Biographies of the Authors
  • Index

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