FORESTIER, J. C. N.   JARDINS.   Carnet De Plans Et De Dessins.       Paris: Émile Paul,   (1920).          First Edition. Forestier was the most important and influential French landscape architect of his generation. His adaptation of formalism and the use of garden geometry, combined with an imaginative and sensitive use of plant material, represented a transition from the institutionalized style of Alphand and André (for whom he first worked) to the modernist cubist gardens of the Exposition of 1925 (whose landscape section he supervised). Forestier was also a brilliant draftsman, and the garden plans and renderings which illustrate his book have a distinctive appeal all their own. A few designs for imaginary gardens are included, but the majority are plans for actual sites, chiefly in the Mediterranean areas of Spain, but also in Casablanca, Havana and the southwest of France.   4to (32.2 x 25.4 cm); (240) pp. unpaginated, profusely illustrated with drawings and plans.            Recently bound in half cloth with marbled paper over boards and leather spine label. $375.00

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