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CHAMBERS, WILLIAM: A DISSERTATION ON ORIENTAL GARDENING London, Printed by 
W. Griffin [etc.], 1773.  3 p. l., xi, [13]-163 Pp. 26.5 cm. Added t.-p. 
engraved has imprint date 1772. The new title page continues "Wherein the 
principles laid down in the foregoing dissertation, are illustrated and 
applied to practice. The second edition, with additions. to which is 
annexed, an explanatory discourse by Tan Chetqua, of Quang-chew-fu, gent.:" 
This includes Pp. 109 to 163. "
Chambers published his famous Dissertation 
on Oriental Gardening...it was really a protest against the devastation and 
bareness of the Brownian landscape. His plea for the garden of varied form, 
texture, and toned colour, designed to awaken curiosity and to evoke 
contrasting sensations of pleasure, surprise, or alarm, anticipated the 
picturesque and aroused controversy lasting until modern times. "The Oxford 
Companion to Gardens, p. 105." Chamber's theories on Oriental gardening 
were contradictory to the "Chinoisere" style then in vogue in England. But 
they extended the boundaries of "The Picturesque" as it had already been 
defined. BOUND WITH Mason, William: An Heroic Epistle to Sir William 
Chambers, Knight, Comptroller General of His Majesty's works, and author of 
a late dissertation on Oriental gardening : enriched with explanatory 
notes, chiefly extracted from that elaborate performance. London : Printed 
for J. Almon, Edition: 4th ed., 1773. 16 p. ; 26.5 cm. Entirely in verse, 
although in part a satire on Sir William Chambers' Dissertation on Oriental 
gardening, it includes large gobbets of political satire as well. ESTC 
T123790, Henrey 549  OCLC: 5 Locs. [CGU, HHG, SNN, PULK, GZM]; as well as 2 
of the first issue.Chambers' work was cut down to agree with this poem by 
the original binder in the 18th century, leaving very adequate margins. In 
¼ calf, marbled boards, new calf spine and Mro. Label, gilt. A very clean 
white copy, with the original engraved title page and engraved dedication 
to the king as published as well with the first edition and still dated 
1772. $1250.00

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