Author: LAAR, Gijsbert van.
Title: Magazijn van tuin-sieraaden of verzameling van modellen van aanleg en sieraad, voor groote en kleine lust-hoven, voornamelijk van dezulke die, met weinig kosten, te maaken zijn. Getrokken uit de voornaamste buitenlandsche werken, naar de gelegenheid en gronden deezer Republiek gewijzigd, en met veele nieuwe platte gronden en sieraaden vermeerderd.Amsterdam, Johannes Allart, 1802. Large 4to (ca. 29 x 23.5 cm). With an engraved title-page and 96 engraved plates, including 56 finely coloured. Contemporary half red buckram.
Description: [2], IV, 72 pp.First edition of the first 12 instalments of this famous Dutch classic work on garden architecture. The author and artist of the work was Gijsbert van Laar (1767-1820), a Dutch garden architect and nurseryman. The work essentially presents an encyclopaedic pictorial survey of all available varieties of garden houses, ruins, sculptures, gates and bridges, garden furniture and decorations, and even designs for monuments for deceased children. Van Laar based his designs on and was inspired by "the best international works", such as J.G. Grohmann's Ideenmagazin für Liebhaber von Gärten ... (Leipzig 1796-1806), John Plaw's Ferme ornée; or rural improvements (London 1795) and other works.The complete work eventually consisted of 24 instalments, including 190 plates, which were published by Allart between 1802 and 1809. The majority (8 of 12) of the instalments in the present copy, including 56 plates, are in colour and were available for 3 guilders per instalment, the other 4 instalments contain uncoloured plates, which were cheaper at 1:16 guilders each. Several other editions appeared during the 19th century at other Dutch publishers, by: De Ruyter in Amsterdam (1819/1820), J. Noman & son in Zaltbommel (832-1834), Van Goor in Gouda (1867), and Funke in Amsterdam (1875).Binding very slightly rubbed, water staining to plate LXIX, occasional, minor (water) staining to other leaves, mainly to the blank protective leaves. Overall in good condition.l Berlin Kat. 3409; Landwehr, Coloured Plates, 100; Oxford companion to gardens (1987), p. 580; Saalmink, Bibliografie II, p. 1075; Saakes 3 (1802) pp. 314-315; Van den Broeke & Meulenkamp, Gijsbert van Laar (1767-1829) [sic: 1829=1820], tuinarchitect. Cascade bulletin voor tuinhistorie 12 (2003) 1, pp. 5-47. cf. Springer, p. 68 (Ed. publ. by J. Noman & Zn., 1802); Van der Does & Holwerda, Concordantie. Van Laar's Magazijn van Tuin-sieraaden. Grohmann's Ideenmagazin (2010).

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