Mughal Gardens: Sources, Places, Representations, and Prospects

Washington DC: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 1996. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 28.5 x 22 cm. Quarto. 288pp. Green cloth in dust jacket. Index. Illustrated with black and white photographs, diagrams. Bottom corners are lightly bumped. Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium Series in the History of Landscape Architecture XVI. Includes the essays: "Sources Places, Representations, and Prospects: A Perspective of Mughal Gardens" by James L. Wescoat, Jr. and Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn, "Memory and Ideology in the Timurid Garden" by Thomas W. Lentz, "Gardens that Babur did not Like: Landscape, Water, and Architecture for the Sultans of Delhi" by Anthony Welch, "But what a happiness to have known Babur!", by Elizabeth B. Moynihan, "Notes on the Economic and Social Aspects of Mughal Gardens" by Irfan Habib", "Gardens, Urbanization, and Urbanism in Mughal Lahore: 1526-1657" by James L. Wescoat Jr., "The Khanah Bagh in Mughal India" by Stephen P. Blake", "The Shahdara Gardens of Lahore" by Michael Brand, "The Garden of the Taj Mahal" by Wayne E. Begley, "Mughal Gardens in Persian Poetry" by W.M. Thackston, "The Historiography of Mughal Gardens" by John F. Richards