Volume 48, Number 8 · May 17, 2001
A Friend, a Booke, and a Garden
By James Fenton
Elysium Britannicum, or The Royal Gardens
John Evelyn, edited by John E. Ingram
University of Pennsylvania Press, 492 pp., $75.00
John Evelyn's "Elysium Britannicum" and European Gardening
edited by Therese O'Malley and Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn
Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium on the History of Landscape Architecture, Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 310 pp., $45.00
Three of the liveliest and most popular of seventeenth-century prose writers are known to us not through the work they brought out in their lifetime but through manuscripts first published in the nineteenth century. John Aubrey, the antiquarian (1626–1697), never printed his Brief Lives. They appeared in bowdlerized editions in 1810 and 1898. Debowdlerized, they were turned into a long-running stage show in the 1960s.
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