Charles Bridgeman and the English Landscape Garden. Reprinted with supplementary plates and a catalogue of additional documents, drawings and attributions. Bridgeman. WILLIS Peter [19615]

Charles Bridgeman and the English Landscape Garden.

Published: Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Elysium Press,
Date: (London 1977), 2002.
Description: Coloured frontis, 233pp plus c180pp plates plus 16 pp catalogue and 62pp plates, bibliog. Gilt lettered cloth, 30x23. As new, dust wrapper.
Notes: A collaborator with Vanburgh, Gibbs & Kent, Bridgeman was influential in the transition from goemetric layouts of the 1700’s to the freer designs of Capability Brown. His masterpiece is Stowe in Buckinghamshire. This edition contains, in addition to the original, much new information & previously unpublished plans, especially from the Gough Collection and Bodleian Library.
ISBN: 0904712044
Price: £50.00