NOTES TO THE INTRODUCTION
[1] Before 1753 there was no guide to any English garden except Stowe; by then the Stowe guidebook had gone through sixteen editions (one in French) plus two pirated editions, the Dialogue itself which mentions the guidebook on p. 17, and two sets of engraved views. For a modern account of Stowe see Christopher Hussey, English Gardens and Landscapes, 1700-1750 (London: Country Life, 1967), pp. 89-113. As a companion piece to this facsimile of Dialogue, ARS plans to publish in its 1976-77 series a facsimile of the Beauties of Stowe (1750), with an introduction by George Clarke.
[2] Gilpin's authorship is argued by William D. Templeman, The Life and Works of William Gilpin (1724-1804), Illinois Studies in Language and Literature, XXIV. 3-4 (Urbana, 1939), pp. 34-5.
[3] The distinction is made by Thomas Whately, Observations on Modern Gardening, 5th ed. (London, 1793), pp. 154-5.
[4] The Grecian Valley is seen first on Bickham's engraved plan of 1753. This and other plans of Stowe are reproduced by George Clarke, "The Gardens of Stowe," Apollo (June, 1973), pp. 558-65.
[5] See Peter Willis, "Jacques Rigaud's Drawings of Stowe in the Metropolitan Museum of Art," Eighteenth-Century Studies, 6 (1972), 85-98.
[6] See George Clarke, op. cit., p. 560.
[7] On this topic see two essays by Ronald Paulson: "Hogarth and the English garden: visual and verbal structures," Encounters, Essays on Literature and the Visual Arts, ed. John Dixon Hunt (London: Studio Vista, 1971), and "The Pictorial Circuit and related structures in eighteenth-century England," The Varied Pattern, ed. Peter Hughes and David Williams (Toronto: Hakkert, 1971).
[8] "There is more Variety in this Garden, than can be found in any other of the same Size in England, or perhaps in Europe" (p. 290).