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By the greatest Dutch garden architect of the 20th century
SPRINGER, Leonard A.De tuinkunst. Voorbeelden uit hare verschillende tijdperken, aanvangende met de Renaissance. Ten dienste van geschiedenis en onderwijs bijeenverzameld.    Haarlem, Heirs Loosjes, 1897. Large folio. Original boards, lacking ties. 12 plates with garden designs in the style of Louis XIII, Louis XIV, Louis XV and Louis XVI. 4 pp. First and only edition of an educational work on garden designs in the Louis XIII, XIV, XV and XVI styles, explained by the greatest of Dutch twentieth century garden architects, Leonard Springer (1855 - 1940). This is the first and only set of plates published in this series. Springer received his training at the horticultural school of the Royal Dutch Horticultural Society in Amsterdam. In 1880 he won a contest of the city of Arnhem, which resulted in the design of a city park. He was a teacher at the Rijkstuinbouwschool an agricultural college in Wageningen. He wrote a large number of articles for several horticultural magazines, usually on the history of horticulture and dendrology. Good copy.- (Bindings sl. loose; library stamps on plates).
Brinkman 1891-1900, p. 65; The Oxford companion to gardens , p. 395.
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