Dictionnaire du jardinage: relatif à la théorie & à la pratique de cet art ; avec figures en taille-douce, dessinées et gravées d'après nature
Dictionnaire du jardinage is a French gardening dictionary by Antoine Nicolas Dézallier d'Argenville, published in 1777 and held by Heidelberg University Library, aimed at gardeners and those learning garden theory and practice. Its copperplate engravings, drawn from nature, show rows of labelled tools such as ladders, forks, hoes, rakes, a hand cart, baskets and a wheelbarrow, laid out in numbered Fig. panels on folded sheets; a designer could draw on their crisp, orderly, diagrammatic layout for tool-catalogue or technical-instruction graphics.
