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Italian Villas and Their Gardens by Edith Wharton

Sign In Register Help Cart. John Dixon Hunt is a professor of landscape architecture at the University of Pennsylvania. Maxfield Parrish — was a renowned American painter and illustrator. Log-in or create an account first! Beautiful cover by the firm Decorative Designers plus 26 stunning full page color and black and whites by Parrish.

A lovely copy of book that is collected for Wharton's text as well as for the illustrations. Profusely illustrated with 52 illustrations, 27 of which are color plates or half tones by Maxfield Parrish, lettered tissue guards, the rest being photographs and drawings by E.

Italian Villas and Their Gardens by Edith Wharton

Denison, Malcolm Fraser and C. Small bookplate and neat owner's presentation on endpapers, otherwise a clean, very good copy, slightly rubbed at the spine and extremities. Argosy Book Store Published: The Century Co, Green cloth elaborately stamped in gilt, green, blue and tan, shelf wear and some fraying to spine ends, small white spot on front cover, gift inscription and book plate to endpapers, light foxing to tissue guards and a few pages but clean overall. A breathtaking and informative book, detailing the methods of Italian gardening.

Profusely illustrated with photographs, exacting line drawings and plates by Maxfield Parrish in color and monochrome, collated complete. Nice first editions are increasingly scarce..

The gilt top edge is a tad dull, while the lush marbled endpapers are quite clean, with a tasteful armorial bookplate on the front pastedown. Features 52 lovely illustrations, 26 of which are the work of Maxfield Parrish, of which several are in color. The dark greenish leather spine has discolored to a burnished brown, with a small ghost from a sticker at base, but the ribbed compartments remain attractive with their gilt tracings.

Hints of rubbing to marbling on covers, with some rubbing to edges A very lovely copy. The Century Company, First edition of Wharton's classic treatise on "Italian garden-magic.

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Edith Wharton's Italian Villas and Their Gardens, a seminal work on garden design, is a testament to the passionate connoisseurship of one of America's. Fans of Edith Wharton simply must read Italian Villas and Their Gardens, which is considered the novelist's first published work. Century Magazine.

With 45 full-page plates, including 26 illustrations by Maxfield Parrish 15 in color , seven in-text and 19 black-and-white photographic illustrations. In near fine condition with some light rubbing and wear. A comprehensive look at the history and character of Italian garden architecture and ornamentation, the book explores more than seventy-five villas, capturing what Wharton calls their "garden-magic" and illuminating the intimate relationship between the house, its formal gardens, and the surrounding countryside.

Parrish illustrations, in trademark dreamy, fairy-tale style--seems to dislocate these legendary gardens from time altogether" Forbes. Raptis Rare Books Published: Italian Villas and Their Gardens. First edition, first printing. Bookplate to front pastedown, some light discoloration to rear panel, spine tips and corners lightly rubbed, overall a very good to near fine and handsome copy in custom mylar cover.

Bookplate to front pastedown, some light discoloration to rear panel, spine tips and corners lightly rubbed, overall a very good Edition: Frontispiece and 25 plates by Maxfield Parrish including 15 in full color, 26 black and white plates from photographs and numerous drawings in the text marginal creases pages not affecting images.

Original green pictorial cloth gilt, top edges gilt, fore and lower edges uncut head and foot of the spine and corners just touched, front inner hinge cracked. First edition, published simultaneously in London. More widely known as one of America's foremost novelists, Edith Wharton, was also an accomplished essayist with this book being first published in parts in "The Century Magazine": This is no doubt partly explained by the difficulty of cultivating any but spring flowers in so hot and dry a climate, and the result has been a wonderful development of the more permanent effects to be obtained from the three other factors in garden-composition - marble, water and perennial verdure -.

Second edition xi, , index. Illustrated with pictures by Maxfield Parrish-- 52 plates with tissue guards on stiff card, 26 of which are coloured drawings by Parrish.

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From the collection of E. Avery McCarthy, travel writer for Saturday Night, whose florid autograph Christmas occupies nearly half an ffep, bookplate at rear.

Small folio 28 cm x 18 cm in decorative green cloth, gilt decoration and titles, t. Top and bottom of spine abraded, corners worn, binding a bit loose. Although occasionally there Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts 1 We have not used OCR Optical Character Recognition , as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos.

Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy. Paperback , pages. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. Lists with This Book.

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Italian Villas and Their Gardens details a history in Italian garden development. The book was first published in and includes some illustrations. The Italian garden is constructed of paths, hedges, fountains and grottos. Colour and flowers are secondary in the scheme, whilst statuary, vines, foliage and structure play a major role.

Order and function is an important criteria for the Italian garden and gardens are seen as an extension of the villa. They include 'garden rooms' for walking, t Italian Villas and Their Gardens details a history in Italian garden development. They include 'garden rooms' for walking, thinking and relaxing.

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It was interesting to read about a different style of gardening. I did feel that I would have liked a more personal style to the writing.

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Italian Villas And Their Gardens by Edith Wharton.

My garden is very different. I love the cottage garden style with lots of flowers in a more natural setting. View all 8 comments. This is a beautiful edition of this book- and I highly recommend this particular edition for anyone interested in the book. But sweet lord in heaven I could NOT get myself interested in the actual subject matter. View all 3 comments. Apr 13, James rated it it was amazing. I finished reading this book this morning.

Wharton made up for that drawback with her superb powers of description. Free download available at Project Gutenberg.

Edith at it again - anyone interested and can't make it to Italy? Download available through Project Gutenberg - http: My wonderful mom got me this book plus a quilt of one of the Parrish illustrations that I sleep on regularly! Kathie Lind rated it really liked it Jun 07, The reverse side, facing the water, has ten terraced gardens circling the entire end of the stony island. The island has been a major tourist site in northern Italy since the seventeenth century, and is easily accessible to tourists today by ferry from Stresa and other points on the lake. Wharton quotes the description of Bishop Burnet, who visited them in She distinguishes, for instance, the sixteenth-century Villa Pallavicini alle Peschiere from the nineteenth-century Villa Pallavicini at Pegli outside Genoa and still advertised today.

About 70 villas were built along the Brenta, beginning in the fifteenth century. Goethe traveled its length on a canopied barge in and described it in his Italian Journey; other famous visitors included Carlo Goldoni whose comedies Wharton admired , Voltaire and Byron both mentioned in the chapter , and George Sand. The Venetian nobility spent the villeggiatura, or vacation season, here and many owners still follow suit. Architectural styles range from the austerity of the sixteenth century to the more fanciful Baroque of the seventeenth and the restrained classicism of the eighteenth.

This chapter contains the only formal garden plan in the book, of the Botanic Garden at Padua, which is open to the public. What assumption is Wharton making about the travelers who visit the villas and gardens of Italy and wish to reproduce them at home? Burnet IV ff.

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Would you consider any of these writers particularly relevant for further study before a journey focusing on Italian gardens, and why? Which of their works might you read? The book is dedicated to Vernon Lee. Compare the representations of the nobility, the Roman Catholic clergy, or Italian palaces and gardens in the novel and in Italian Villas and Their Gardens.

At the same time, it is in some ways the most passionately argued. With whom is she taking issue, and why? Uninformed Americans trying to construct Italian gardens from imported artifacts?