Hints on landscape gardening : together with a description of their practical application in Muskau : with the hand-colored illustrations of the atlas

"Puckler's park in Muskau served as a textbook example of park design for American students through much of the twentieth century" (Gert Groning). __Andeutungen uber Landschaftsgartnerei__, the main work of Puckler-Muskau and classic source of landscape design, is made available here in a reliable and beautiful edition. The text is completed by the 44 views and four maps of the Muskau park in the __Atlas__ that accompanied the original edition of 1834. A Beautiful New Edition Of Hermann Von Pückler-muskau's Classic Hints On Landscape Gardening Has Just Been Released By Birkhäuser And The Foundation For Landscape Studies. The Large-format Volume Includes The Full Set Of Lavish Color Prints Originally Published As A Companion Piece To The Wry, Highly Opinionated Text That Took The Landscape Gardening World By Storm In 1834. A Remarkably Insightful New Translation By John Hargraves-the First Since The Asla Sponsored A Reprint In 1917-is Immeasurably Enriched By Linda B. Parshall's Introduction And A Nuanced Preface By Fls President, Elizabeth Barlow Rogers, Who Illuminates Philosophical Resonances Among Pückler, Frederick Law Olmsted, Calvert Vaux, And The Great Protector Of Central Park, Samuel B. Parsons Jr.-- Preface / By Elizabeth Barlow Rogers -- Introduction / By Linda B. Parshall --hints On Landscape Gardening, Together With A Description Of Their Practical Application In Muskau / By Hermann Prince Von Pückler-muskau, Translated By John Hargraves -- Notes On The Translation -- Translator's Note / By John Hargraves -- Atlas To The Hints On Landscape Gardening, With The Hand-colored Illustrations Of The Muskau Folio -- About The Contributors -- Index Of Persons, Places, And Garden Design Terms -- Index To The Plates And Maps By Herrmann Prince Von Pückler-muskau ; Translated By John Hargraves ; With A Preface By Elizabeth Barlow Rogers ; And An Introduction By Linda B. Parshall. Translated From The German. Translation Of: Andeutungen über Landschaftsgärtnerei : Verbunden Mit Der Beschreibung Ihrer Praktischen Anwendung In Muskau. Stuttgart : Hallberger, 1834. With The Hand-colored Illustrations Of The Atlas [to The Hints On Landscape Gardening]. In Association With The Foundation For Landscape Studies. The Illustrations In This Edition Are Based On The 'fürst-pückler-park Bad Muskau' Foundation Volume Of The Hand-colored Atlas To The Hints On Landscape Gardening, With The Exception Of Plates I And Xxii And Maps C And D, Which Were Provided By The Saxon State And University Library Dresden (slub), Department Of Forestry. The Text And The Page Numbers Of The German Edition Given In The Margins Of The Text Are Those Of The First Of The Two 1834 Text Editions. --title Page Verso. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.

Park Muskau, Prince Pückler’s extraordinary nineteenth-century creation on both sides of the River Neisse, together with Hints on Landscape Gardening (Andeutungen über Landschaftsgärtnerei), his instructive 1834 treatise based on the park’s design,are as important to American landscape architects as the work and writings of Frederick Law Olmsted. This thoroughly new and authoritative edition translated by John Hargraves, with an introduction by landscape historian and Pückler authority Linda Parshall, contains the same forty-four images and four maps as the original large-format Atlas accompanying the German text. Published in collaboration with the Foundation for Landscape Studies, the print edition of the book shall be matched by an electronic publication that contains the illustrations in a size corresponding with the original dimensions (approx. 51 x 35 cm) of the Atlas. The page concordance in the margins of the translated text allows for a precise reference to the German original.

Park Muskau, Prince Pückler's extraordinary nineteenth-century creation on both sides of the River Neisse, together with Hints on Landscape Gardening (Andeutungen über Landschaftsgärtnerei), his instructive 1834 treatise based on the park's design, are as important to American landscape architects as the work and writings of Frederick Law Olmsted. This thoroughly new and authoritative edition translated by John Hargraves, with an introduction by landscape historian and Pückler authority Linda Parshall, contains the same forty-four images and four maps as the original large-format Atlas accompanying the German text. Published in collaboration with the Foundation for Landscape Studies, the print edition of the book shall be matched by an electronic publication that contains the illustrations in a size corresponding with the original dimensions (approx. 51 x 35 cm) of the Atlas. The page concordance in the margins of the translated text allows for a precise reference to the German original. Preface; Introduction; Hints on Landscape Gardening, Together with a Description of their Practical Application in Muskau; Dedication; Introduction; Section One; Chapter One, Fundamental Idea and Plan of a Park; Chapter Two, Size and Extent; Chapter Three, Enclosure; Chapter Four, General Groupings and Buildings; Chapter Five, Parks and Gardens; Chapter Six, The Installation of Grass Lawns; Chapter Seven, Transplanting and Grouping of Larger Trees; Chapter Eight, Roads and Paths; Chapter Nine, Water; Chapter Ten, Islands; Chapter Eleven, Rocks; Chapter Twelve, Earthworks and Esplanades „Pückler's park in Muskau served as a textbook example of park design for American students through much of the twentieth century" (Gert Gröning). Andeutungen über Landschaftsgärtnerei, the main work of Pückler-Muskau and classic source of landscape design, is made available here in a reliable and beautiful edition. The text is completed by the 44 views and four maps of the Muskau park in the Atlas that accompanied the original edition of 1834 Chapter Thirteen, MaintenanceSection Two; First Itinerary; Second Itinerary; Third Itinerary; Notes on the Translation; Translator's Note; Atlas to the Hints on Landscape Gardening, with the Hand-colored Illustrations of the Muskau Folio; About the Contributors; Index of Persons, Places, and Garden Design Terms; Index to the Plates and Maps Deals with Andeutungen uber Landschaftsgartnerei, the main work of Puckler-Muskau and classic source of landscape design. This title is completed by the 44 views and four maps of the Muskau park in the Atlas that accompanied the original edition of 1834.