Bedford College University of London 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). [9] Derek Clifford, _A History of Garden Design_ (London: Faber, 1962), pp. 138-9. [10] "Poetry, Painting, and Gardening, or the Science of Landscape, will forever by men of taste be deemed Three Sisters, or the _Three New Graces_ who dress and adorn nature": MS. annotation to William Mason's _Satirical Poems_, published in an edition of the relevant poems by Paget Toynbee (Oxford: Clarendon, 1926), p. 43. For an anthology of similar comments see _The Genius of the Place: The English Landscape Garden 1620-1820_, ed. John Dixon Hunt and Peter Willis (London: Elek, 1975). [11] See Kenneth Woodbridge, _Landscape and Antiquity_ (Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 1970), plates 2a, 2b, and 3. [12] On this see Derek Clifford, _op. cit._, pp. 140 and 158.