Country Life: A Handbook of Agriculture, Horticulture, and Landscape Gardening
by Copeland, Robert Morris
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Orig. brown textured cloth, cover panels in blind. Near fine
- Seller
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ardsley, New York, United States
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About This Item
Boston: John P. Jewett, 1859. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. brown textured cloth, cover panels in blind. Near fine. 813 pages. 22 x 15 cm. Nearly 150 plates: Double-page lithograph frontispiece; woodcut plates and in-text illustrations. KARPEL B526. "Robert Morris Copeland was one of that remarkable generation of landscaped architects which included F.L. Olmsted, H.W.S. Cleveland, and Charles Eliot. Copeland's treatises were popular and widely read and may be considered as the logical and worthy successor to Downing's, `A Treatise on The Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening, etc.' The book contains much information on ornamental gardening." Owner inscription free front endpaper dated 1859. The lithograph frontispiece is a plan for laying out a country place of 60 acres; with chapters on orchards, farms, gardens, greenhouses, etc. A remarkably clean, fresh copy, no foxing, only fault, slight nicks to backstrip head and foot. Gilt backstrip lettering reasonably bright.
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- Bookseller
- Royoung bookseller, Inc. (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 22466
- Title
- Country Life: A Handbook of Agriculture, Horticulture, and Landscape Gardening
- Author
- Copeland, Robert Morris
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Orig. brown textured cloth, cover panels in blind. Near fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- John P. Jewett
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1859
- Keywords
- Landscape gardening
- Bookseller catalogs
- Architecture; American Art; Gardening;
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ardsley, New York
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