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Gardens of court and country: English design, 1630-1730

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Formal gardens as a topic -- The phenomenon of formal gardens -- Profit and pleasure : the purposes of gardens -- English garden design : 1630-1680 -- Kingly ambitions : Charles II's gardens and parks -- 'Rays from Versailles' : English gardens, 1680-1700 -- Queen Anne's years -- Gardens in the Augustan Age -- Ichnographia rustica -- Lost but rediscovered.

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    London: Yale University Press, [2017]

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    • 1600-1799
    • 1630-1730

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    • 0300222017
    • 9780300222012

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    Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art

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