The title-page of Sir William Chambers’ Dissertation on Oriental Gardening – £560.
A Dissertation on Oriental Gardening… is the single volume that I have selected from a recent Gloucestershire auction in which job lots were very much in evidence and that acted as a sort of extra, clearing-the-decks sort of exercise in the saleroom’s calendar.
Sold for £560 by Dominic Winter (20% buyer’s premium) on February 13 was a volume that brought together a 1773, second edition of this treatise by the architect Sir William Chambers and a third edition of a 16pp Heroic Epistle… issued in response to the sentiments therein expressed.