◎英国文化・美学で最も注目を集める研究テーマの一つ「自然風風景庭園」に関する貴重資料集。
◎英国式庭園が成立した17世紀末から18世紀の文献30点強を多くの図版とともに復刻。
◎英国式庭園の時間的変遷を、ストウ、ブレニム、キューなどの庭園とそれに関わる文献により通観。
◎ギルピン、プライス、ナイトらのピクチャレスク論との相関を探る研究にも重要な集成。

編者のことば　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　東京電機大学　松平圭一

　18世紀に成立をみる英国式庭園は、自然らしい自然を庭園の根幹にすえた自然風風景庭園でした。それまでの大陸で生まれた規則性、幾何学性、対称性を徹底して造型の根本とした整形庭園とは全く異なる庭園様式です。英国式庭園の特徴は、イギリスが数世紀にわたって培ってきたイギリス独自の自然観、すなわち自然が備えた不規則性、多様性、変化を自然の美しさの源泉とする自然観と、同様にイギリスで育まれた独自の精神性、つまり人間の五感で実際に体験したことを知識の根源とする経験主義が、形象化して生まれた造型の集積イディオムです。
　英国式庭園は、18世紀にあって不変の単一した庭園様式ではありませんでした。18世紀初期のウィリアム・ケント(1685-1748)によって成立した初期英国式庭園は、ケントが画家であったことが影響して絵画性を重視した庭園でした。ケントの英国式庭園は、崇高、美に続く第3の美意識の範疇、自然風景に絵画性を求めたピクチャレスク美を確立したウィリアム・ギルピンに始まり、ユヴァディル・プライス、リチャード・ペイン・ナイトを継承者としたピクチャレスク・スクールから賞賛されました。しかし、ケントの庭園が絵画性を醸成するために廃墟、グロット、そして古典主義建築様式で作られた様々な庭園装飾を用いたのに対して、ケントの弟子であったランスロット・ケィパビィ
リティ・ブラウン(1716-83)は、こうした庭園装飾をできる限り排除し自然の風景そのものに庭園を造るランドスケープ重視の様式を確立し、ピクチャレスク派の人々はこれをよしとせず18世紀後半に庭園様式を巡る大論争が繰り広げられました。
　今回刊行される『庭の文化史』は、英国式庭園の成立から展開に関わる貴重で入手困難な文献が集められます。ギルピンのピクチャレスク論は英国式庭園の傑作ストウ庭園に始まると申し上げれば、多くの皆さんがこの文献集成に深い関心をお持ちくださると思います。

収録文献

Vol.1: c.351pp
Temple, Sir William
Upon the gardens of Epicurus' from Mliscellanea, The second part in four essays, London, 1690, 69pp

Congreve, William
Verses to the Right Hon. Lord Viscount Cobham…' from Mr. Congreve's last will

testament, London, 1729, 6pp

Anon. [West, Gilbert]
Stowe, the gardens of the Right Honourable Richard Lord Viscount Cobham.
Addresssed to Mr. Pope, London, 1732, 32pp

Anon.
A description of the Royal Gardens at Richmond in Surry, the village and place
s adjacent. With some account of its antiquity, and what has happen'd remarkab
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there, London, 1736, 32pp

Anon.
A description of the gardens of Lord Viscount Cobham at Stow in Buckinghamshire, Northhampton, 1744, 31pp

Anon.
A dialogue: containing a description of the gardens of the Right Honourable the Lord Viscount Cobham at Stow in Buckinghamshire. Together with copies of the incriptions., 3rd ed., London, 1751, 43pp

Attiret, Jean Denis
A particular account of the Empire of China's gardens near Pekin: In a letter from F. Attiret, a French missionary, now employed by that Emperor to paint the apartments in those gardens, to his friend at Paris. Trasl. from French by Sir Harry Beaumont, London, 1752, 53pp

Halfpenny, William
Rural architecture in the Chinese taste, being designs entirely new for the decoration of gardens, parks, forrests, insides of houses… Divided in four parts. 2nd ed., London, 1752, 85pp

Vol. 2: c.406pp
Hogarth, William
The analysis of beauty. Written with a view of fixing the fluctuating ideas of
taste, London, 1753, 178pp

Bickam, George
The beauties of Stow or a description of the most noble house, gardens & magnificent buildings therein, of the Right Hon. The Earl Temple, Viscount & Baron Cobham, London, 1756, 72pp

Anon. [Pye, Joel-Henrietta]
A short account of the principal seats and gardens, in and about Twickenham, London, 1760, 66pp

Anon.
Stowe: a description of the magnificent house and gardens of the Right Honourable Richard. Earl Temple, Viscount and Baron Cobham, New edition., London, 1763, 48pp

Anon.
A short account of the principal seats and gardens in and about Richmond and Kew, Brentford, 1763, 18pp

Anon.
A description of the gardens and building at Kew, in Surrey; with the engraving belonging thereto in Perspective. To which is added, A short account of the princial seats and gardens in and about Richmond and Kew, Brentford, 1763, 24p
p

Vol. 3: c.463pp
Anon. [Whately, Thomas]
Observation on modern gardening, illustrated by descriptions. To which are added, I. An essay on design in gardening. II. Letters describing the Lake of Killarney, and Muscruss Gardens: By William Ockenden, Dublin, 1770, 302pp

Walpole, Horace
'The History of Modern Taste in Gardening', Anecdotes of painting in England； … To which is added The history of the modern taste in gardening 2nd ed., Vol . 4, Chapter VII 'On modern gardening'., Strawberry-Hill, 1771/1780, 65pp

Chambers, William,
A dissertation on oriental gardening, to which is added, An heroic epistle, in
answer to Sir William Chambers, 11th ed., Dublin, 1773, 64pp

Anon. [Mason, William],
An heroic epistle to Sir William Chambers, Knight, etc., Dublin, 1773, 12pp

Anon.
G**y's Inn gardens. A visionary satire by a lady, London, 1778, 20pp

Vol. 4: c.382pp
Mason, William
The English garden: a poem in four books, Dublin, 1782, 157pp

Scott, John
Epistotle I The garden.' from The poetical works of John Scott Esq., London, 1782, 10pp

Girardin, Rene
An essay on landscape; or, the means of improving and embellishing the country round our habitants. Translated from the French of R.L. Gerardine Victe…,
London, 1783, 215pp

Vol. 5: c.390pp
Fellon, Samuel
Miscellanies, on ancient and modern gardening; and on the scenery of nature,
London, 1785, 126pp

Mavor, William Fordyce
New description of Blenheim, the seat of his Grace the Duke of Marlborough. Containing a full and accurate account of the paintings, tapestry, and furniture; a picturesque tour of the gardens and park… New and improved edition, London, 1793,
140pp

Repton, Humphry
Sketches and hints on landscape gardening. Collected from designs and observations now in the possession of the different noblemen and gentlemen, for whose use they were originally made, London, 1794, 124pp

Vol. 6: c.506pp
Mason, George
An essay on design in gardening, first published in MDCCLXIII. Now greatly augmented, also a revisal of several later publications on the same subject,
London, 1795, 223pp

Price, Uvedale, Sir,
A letter to H. Repton, Esq., on the application of the practice as well as the principles of landscape-painting to landscape-gardening, London, 1795, 176pp

Mason, George
An appendix to an essay on design in gardening, incl. 'Second appendix',
London, 1798, 20pp

Anon.
Elements of modern gardening: or, the art of laying out of pleasure grounds, ornamenting farms, and embellishing the views round about our houses, London, c1800, 87pp