Observations on Modern Gardening, by Thomas Whately: An Eighteenth-Century Study of the English Landscape Garden

Edition, with commentary, of the first comprehensive attempt to describe the landscape garden.


Thomas Whately's Observations on Modern Gardening (1770) is the first and most comprehensive study of what has come to be known as the English landscape garden, often claimed to be this country's greatest original contribution to the fine arts. It became the standard text on the subject; its authority was accepted at home and abroad, and the book was read widely across Europe, mainly in a French tr...