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179452700Thomas Pennant's Some Account of London fourth edition. Some Account of London by Thomas Pennant. Laurie & Whittle. London 1794. A handsome view showing the rich and fashionable wandering across the lawns in front of the alcove dining tables in the Temple of Comus in Vauxhall Gardens Copper engraving. In fine condition Later colouring. Size: 38.5 x 25 cm. 15 x 10 inches. Mounted size: 60.5 x 48.5 cm unknown
179452699Some Account of London by Thomas Pennant. Fourth edition. Laurie & Whittle. London 1794. Handsome engraving of Vauxhall Gardens with members of high society seeing and being seen talking strolling and listening to musicians on a bandstand. In the background the treelined Grand Walk extends into the distance Copper engraving. In fine condition. Later colouring. Size: 39 x 24 cm. 15½ x 9½ inches. Mounted size: 60.5 x 48.5 cm unknown
179452698Thomas Pennant's Some Account of London fourth edition. Laurie &Whittle. 1794. Fascinating print of members of high society promenading in Vauxhall Gardens in the foreground whilst others dine in the booths lining the walk behind Copper engraving. In fine condition. Mounted size 60.5 x 48.5 Later colouring. Size: 39 x 25 cm. 15½ x 10 inches. unknown
177552696Some Account of London by Thomas Pennant 4th edition. Carrington Bowles. c.1775. Vauxhall Gardens was one of the places to meet socially and be seen in eighteenth century London. This magnificent view shows various important finely dressed society people walking talking and dining in booths in the ornately decorated walls of the Chinese Pavilion Copper engraving. In fine condition. Mounted size 60.3 x 48.2 cm Later colouring. Size: 40 x 27 cm. 15½ x 10½ inches unknown
1756AQ28539London: Printed for J. Rivington.and B. Seeley 1756. 32pp. With an engraved folding plan. Extra-illustrated with an engraved dedication leaf and 11 engraved plates of views one folding seemingly extracted from Stow: the gardens of the Right Honourable the Lord Viscount Cobham. 1751 signed: B. Seeley the publisher of the work and draughtsman of the plates. Later blue paper boards rebacked in modern gilt-ruled calf. Boards worn. Bookplate of the Society of the Holy Child Jesus to FEP early inked ownership inscription to head of title page. In 1744 the first full guidebook to the house and grounds was published by Benton Seeley a writing master in Buckingham. The guidebooks continued for a further 70 years and Seeley went on to become a printer and publisher founding a business that wound up only in 1978. Seeley's guide book became historically significant. It went through seventeen editions between 1744 and 1797 continually undergoing improvements and revisions. The book’s influence was such that it helped to make the Stowe gardens among the most publicised and copied of the English landscape model. ESTC records copies of this edition at three locations in the British Isles Armagh Robinson Oxford and V&A and one further copy in North America Yale. ESTC T179358. 8vo. Printed for J. Rivington...and B. Seeley hardcover
1796108121796. Approx. 40 brush & ink drawings in black & white. Scroll 180 x 1440 mm. central core roller. At end in rough trans.: “Many generations of SÅami bonsan 100 rules & styles. Extremely secret. All the information passed down by mouth is listed here. Handle this information with great care and keep it close. Given by Ishioka Seisaku 石岡æ£æœ” in September 1796 to ZuihÅken no Yahiroko 瑞芳軒之八尋å.â€<br /> <BR> <BR> Bonsan miniature mountain gardens is a sub-category of bonkei 盆景 tray-garden landscapes. Created to fit into small containers good bonsan convey the texture color and form of natural mountainous scenery. These small tray or pot landscapes have their origins in 10th-century China.<br /> <BR> <BR> The text in our scroll is a distillation of the teachings of SÅami ShinsŠ相阿彌真相 1472-1525 painter art critic and artistic adviser to the Ashikaga shoguns in Kyoto master of the tea and incense ceremonies and landscape gardener. He established rules for and a school SÅami ryu of garden design and flower arrangement as well as the rules and styles for bonsan. “As a landscape gardener he designed two of the most celebrated Zen temple gardens in Japan: the RyÅan Temple garden in Kyoto an outstanding example of kare sansui a dry landscape technique in which combinations of stones and sand are used to suggest mountains and water; and the Daisei-in garden a miniature reproduction of a natural landscape also in the kare sansui style. It is believed that he also planned the garden of the famed Silver Pavilion Ginkaku Temple in Kyoto the villa built by his major patron Ashikaga Yoshimasa.â€â€“Encycl. Brit. online.<br /> <BR> <BR> The author begins by extolling the pleasures of bonsan and offers advice on how to observe and enjoy them. He continues with descriptions of the materials used miniature trees sand rocks etc. seasonal variations the kinds of trays square rectangular circular and colors red white blue yellow brown and black and advice on where how and when to display them. The text also discusses the styles created over the centuries and famous sites that could be replicated on the trays.<br /> <BR> <BR> All of this is finely illustrated in a series of about 40 fine black & white brush drawings illustrating the many varieties of bonsan design.<br /> <BR> <BR> Ishioka was a resident of Kyoto and gave instruction on creating miniature gardens. He left another manuscript on miniature gardening see WorldCat 1451711637.<br /> <BR> <BR> In fine condition. Some worming mostly marginal. Preserved in a modern wooden box. unknown
