LIGNE Prince Charles-Joseph de Mon refuge ; ou Satyre sur les abus des jardins modernes.

Cioranescu, 40364; de Ganay, 543.

First edition. Dedicated to Count L. de S…. Ligne develops in verse form a doctrine that rejects unilateral decisions and denounces the exaggerated gardenomania of certain contemporaries. It also offers a panorama of the European parks and gardens of his time.

“One of the Prince de Ligne’s country houses, near Vienna, was called Mon refuge. A very rare pamphlet in verse. We have not yet come across it” (de Ganay).

A fine copy with full margins, from the Starhemberg library (stamp and shelf-number at the bottom of the title).