Italian villas and their gardens
Edith Wharton's 1904 study of Renaissance and Baroque villa design in Italy, published by The Century Co. in New York for American readers and garden designers, with plates after photographs and paintings by Maxfield Parrish. The images are halftone views of terraced gardens, balustrades, clipped hedges, fountains, grottoes and garden facades, useful for architectural ornament, formal planting plans, and grey-toned landscape backdrops.
