Guy basil editor (8 risultati)

Paperback. Condizione: Near Fine. First Thus. Minneapolis: Del Rey / The Ballantine Publishing Group 2001. First Thus. Trade Paperback. 0345444078 . First edition thus. Pictorial [John Jude Palencar] wrappers, [470] pages [last numbered page is 468], collecting 16 Mythos stories [plus HPL's], afterwords: contributors' notes, illustrated. Fine copy with a remainder dot to the top edge. See photos clph. Dave Carson, Martin McKenna, Jim Pitts (illustratore). …

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. 1st. 1st thus edition, translated and edited (from the 1795 edition; dj in mylar; green w/gilt decorations/titles; illustrated end papers; Overview of the prince's own garden at Beloeil (near Mons, Belgium ),and his observatons of otherrs (including Versailles, the Petit Trianon, Kew Gardens in London and others. edition) by Basil Guy. 158 b/w Illus (illustratore).…

Hard Cover. Condizione: Very Good+. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good+. No markings.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. 304 pages. Charles-Joseph, seventh Prince de Ligne, Field marshal, Grandee of Spain, Kni ght of the Golden Fleece, sovereign of the minuscule county of Fagnolles in the Ardennes, and author of the Coup d'Oeil sur Beloeil, was born in 1735. Claiming descent from Charlemagne, intimate with royalty from Paris to Vienna to St. Pete rsburg, he traveled widely, associating with such luminaries as Madame de Staël , Voltaire, Frederick the Great, and Rousseau until the eighteenth-century douce ur de vivre came to an abrupt halt with the French Revolution. Forced to flee hi s Belgian estates, he became an exile in Vienna, where he died in 1814, having a ttempted to support himself by writing. But Ligne's real passion was for his gar den at Beloeil, which he described as he lay dying as the handsomest garden in Europe . . . if it weren't for Versailles.This new critical edition pres ents the 1795 version of Ligne's masterwork, his garden treatise on Beloeil and the great gardens of Europe. Designed by Wolfgang Lederer and elegantly illustra ted from sources Ligne himself might have known, this extensively annotated tran slation will introduce a new generation of readers to Ligne's intelligence and w it as well as his ideas on gardens. The charm and vivacity of the Prince's anecd otes and pithy observations lead one through his own beloved gardens to a Grand Tour of European culture in the eighteenth century.These pages were comp osed in happy days, when the world was not sullied with crime and when our blood and tears had not been shed. I wrote names then that I no longer have the stren gth to utter. Now everything is altered. But that does not change the intent of my work, which was simply to give counsel and example to others. These are not t.…

Decorative Cloth. Fine/Fine. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 295 pages including appendices, bibliography and index, 158 illustrations.

Hardcover. Condizione: New. Condizione sovraccoperta: New. New in shrinkwrap hardcover, book and jacket in lovely shape. A classic of French garden design. Prince Charles Joseph de Ligne was the owner of the moated castle and surrounding gardens. 295 pages. M06221.

Paperback. Condizione: Brand New. new title edition. 204 pages. 9.25x6.25x0.50 inches. In Stock.

4. Berkeley, University of California Press, 1991, in-4°, 28,5 x 22 cm, 295 pp, index, b/w ills., publisher's cloth with original dustwrapper. Text in English. With a manuscript ex-dono from Basil Guy on the first fly leaf.