LE ROUGE, GEORGE LOUIS [PUBLISHER][Les Jardins Anglo-Chinois]. [Paris: Le Rouge, 1775-1779] 7 parts [Cahiers 1-4 and 6-8] (of 21), in 7 volumes, 4to (11 x 9 inches). 188 engraved plates, 2 engraved text leaves, 2 engraved tables. Contemporary marbled paper-covered boards, vellum labels to spine with manuscript part numbers; spine worn. Parts present here comprise:Cahier 1 (1775): 24 engraved plates (23 double-page, one folding), plus 2 engraved text leaves.Cahier 2 (1775): 23 double page engraved plates.Cahier 3 (1776): 28 engraved double-page plates; lacks the unnumbered folding plan titled "Jardins Anglo-Chinois de Sans Souci".Cahier 4 (1776): 30 engraved double-page plates.Cahier 6 (1778): 30 engraved plates (28 double-page, 2 folding)Cahier 7 (1779): 25 engraved plates (20 double-page, 5 folding), plus 2 engraved folding tablesCahier 8 [though the title on the first plate changed in early manuscript to 5e Cahier] (1778): 28 engraved double-page plates. "The most important engraved work concerning the history of European gardens during the 18th century" (Bernard Korzus) Georges-Louis Le Rouge lived in Paris from 1736, where he obtained a position as military and civil engineer of King Louis XV and Louis XVI. Le Rouge began to publish Jardins Anglo-Chinois in 1775, and continued the project over a period of fourteen years. Included are plans, views and details, often adapted from earlier printed sources, and occasionally from original drawings, of Stowe, Kew, Blair Atholl, Buckingham, Richmond, Chiswick, Esher, Claremont, Windsor, and Wilton, Roissy, Saint-James at Neuilly, Marly, the Trianon, Desert de Retz, numerous other locations in and around Paris, Schwetzingen, Wurzburg, Steinfurt and Orianenbaum. Of the greatest historical importance are the quite detailed plans of a number of gardens that have either disappeared completely or been altered to a point where the original intentions of the garden designer are no longer evident (such as the garden at Raincy, which now only exists on paper). The theoretical works and garden design manuals on which Le Rouge also drew include works by Thomas Collins Overton, William Wrighte and of course William Chambers Records suggest that the only complete copy of this work to appear at auction was sold in London in 1982. REFERENCE:Berlin Katalog, 3312 (19 cahiers); Inventaire du fonds français, Graveurs du XVIIIe siècle XV:56-72; Ganay 99; Veronique Royet, Le Rouge, Les Jardins anglo-chinois (Paris: 2004)Condition ReportCondition as described in catalogue entry. The lot is sold in the condition it is in at the time of sale. The
LE ROUGE, GEORGE LOUIS [PUBLISHER][Les Jardins Anglo-Chinois]. [Paris: Le Rouge, 1775-1779] 7 parts [Cahiers 1-4 and 6-8] (of 21), in 7 volumes, 4to (11 x 9 inches). 188 engraved plates, 2 engraved text leaves, 2 engraved tables. Contemporary marbled paper-covered boards, vellum labels to spine with manuscript part numbers; spine worn. Parts present here comprise:Cahier 1 (1775): 24 engraved plates (23 double-page, one folding), plus 2 engraved text leaves.Cahier 2 (1775): 23 double page engraved plates.Cahier 3 (1776): 28 engraved double-page plates; lacks the unnumbered folding plan titled "Jardins Anglo-Chinois de Sans Souci".Cahier 4 (1776): 30 engraved double-page plates.Cahier 6 (1778): 30 engraved plates (28 double-page, 2 folding)Cahier 7 (1779): 25 engraved plates (20 double-page, 5 folding), plus 2 engraved folding tablesCahier 8 [though the title on the first plate changed in early manuscript to 5e Cahier] (1778): 28 engraved double-page plates. "The most important engraved work concerning the history of European gardens during the 18th century" (Bernard Korzus) Georges-Louis Le Rouge lived in Paris from 1736, where he obtained a position as military and civil engineer of King Louis XV and Louis XVI. Le Rouge began to publish Jardins Anglo-Chinois in 1775, and continued the project over a period of fourteen years. Included are plans, views and details, often adapted from earlier printed sources, and occasionally from original drawings, of Stowe, Kew, Blair Atholl, Buckingham, Richmond, Chiswick, Esher, Claremont, Windsor, and Wilton, Roissy, Saint-James at Neuilly, Marly, the Trianon, Desert de Retz, numerous other locations in and around Paris, Schwetzingen, Wurzburg, Steinfurt and Orianenbaum. Of the greatest historical importance are the quite detailed plans of a number of gardens that have either disappeared completely or been altered to a point where the original intentions of the garden designer are no longer evident (such as the garden at Raincy, which now only exists on paper). The theoretical works and garden design manuals on which Le Rouge also drew include works by Thomas Collins Overton, William Wrighte and of course William Chambers Records suggest that the only complete copy of this work to appear at auction was sold in London in 1982. REFERENCE:Berlin Katalog, 3312 (19 cahiers); Inventaire du fonds français, Graveurs du XVIIIe siècle XV:56-72; Ganay 99; Veronique Royet, Le Rouge, Les Jardins anglo-chinois (Paris: 2004)Condition ReportCondition as described in catalogue entry. The lot is sold in the condition it is in at the time of sale. The
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