Easy reading (Kurbatov, V. Ya. Gardens and parks: history and theory of garden art)

Kurbatov, V. Ya. Gardens and parks: history and theory of garden art / V. Ya. Kurbatov. - Saint Petersburg : Wolf, 1916. - 752 p. : 378 p. ill.

"This publication is a monograph on "the garden art". The author set the goal to find out the features of this completely independent branch of art and to acquaint the public with the structure and artistic value of almost all wonderful gardens” (from the author's foreword)

Contemporaries called this book the Silver Age Garden Bible, and by the beginning of the 21st century this book had already become a real bibliographic rarity.

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