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Title: Italian Villas and Their Gardens by Edith Wharton, Maxfield Parrish ISBN: 0-306-80048-9 Publisher: DaCapo Press Pub. Date: May, 1977 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.33 (3 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: FYI - Original illustrations in color still are!
Comment: I am a lucky owner of the 1904 original edition. I bought this reissue so that I could enjoy reading the text without worrying about damaging my 1904 edition. Comparing the two, the orignal's Parrish color and black & white illustrations are all there in the reissue. Please note that several were NOT color in the original too. The only difference is that the reissue has the color prints situated in a group in the center of the book, whereas (in the original) they are sprinkled throughout and have tissue paper protection. The color print quality is not as crisp as the original, but it is color. The b&w print quality is just as un-crisp as in the original.
Rating: 4
Summary: FYI - Maxfield Parrish illustrations are not in color
Comment: I bought this book looking for Maxfield Parrish illustrations. I kept this book because Edith Warton is an incredibly soothing writer.
It should be of note that the text was so wonderfully written that it kept me from returning the book.
Imagine, however, what an incredible book this would be if the Parrish illustrations were not in black and white.
Rating: 4
Summary: intellectually stimulating garden history
Comment: I was very excited to find this book and nab a copy of it. (I'm a garden writer and I wanted to get Edith Wharton's perspective on garden history).
Italian gardens, as it turns out, are places for walking, thinking, conversing and relaxing. Their most common elements are paths, hedges, arcades, fountains, pools and grottos. They very seldom utilize color (a feature that is often ofterdone in American gardens), instead concentrating on foliage texture, stone and statuary. Usual plantings are trees, shrubs and vines.
What is most instructive is the layout of these Italian gardens, including the idea of garden rooms and the use of water features (both of which have become immensely popular here in the US, in the last few years). The architecture of the garden is everything, and is an extension of the house. Order, logic and function are paramount in the Italian garden.
Edith Wharton is a brilliant and fascinating guide; literary and historical references abound. A joy to read and to keep for reference.
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Title: Edith Wharton's Italian Gardens by Vivian Russell ISBN: 0821223976 Publisher: Bulfinch Pub. Date: 01 March, 1998 List Price(USD): $38.50 |
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Title: Italian Gardens by Judith Wade ISBN: 0847824950 Publisher: Rizzoli Pub. Date: 14 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $37.50 |
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Title: The Decoration of Houses (The Classical America Series in Art and Architecture) by Edith Wharton, Ogden Codman ISBN: 0393312607 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: July, 1998 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: Garden Lover's Guide to Italy (Garden Lover's Guides to Europe) by Penelope Hobhouse ISBN: 1568981309 Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press Pub. Date: May, 1998 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: LA Foce: A Garden and Landscape in Tuscany (Penn Studies in Landscape Architecture) by Benedetta Origo, Laurie Olin, John Dixon Hunt, Morna Livingston ISBN: 0812235932 Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press Pub. Date: October, 2001 List Price(USD): $55.00 |
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