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Rural essays. / By A.J. Downing. ; Edited, with a memoir of the author, by George William Curtis, and a letter to his friends, by Frederika Bremer.
Carpenters' Company of the City and County of Philadelphia 1855 Downing
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Downing, A. J. (Andrew Jackson), 1815-1852
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Gardening.
- Architecture, Domestic.
- Landscape gardening.
- Landscape architecture.
- Cottages--Decoration.
- Cottages.
- Country homes.
- Rural life.
- Trees.
- Downing, A. J. (Andrew Jackson), 1815-1852.
- Downing, A. J.
- Physical Description:
- lxxi, [1], 557, [1] p., [8] leaves of plates : ill., plans ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York: : Leavitt & Allen, no. 27 Dey Street., 1854 [i.e. 1855?]
- Contents:
- Memoirs
- Letter from Miss Bremer
- Horticulture
- Landscape gardening
- Rural architecture
- Trees
- Agriculture
- Fruit
- Letters from England.
- Notes:
- Copyright 1853 by George P. Putnam & Co.
- "John F. Trow, printer and stereotyper, 49 Ann-street."--t.p. verso.
- With [8] leaves of plates including frontispiece, some signed "Anderson" with 1 signed: Copy from Anderson, Forbes. Vignette on added title page signed : Richardson & Co. Some copies report [9] leaves of plates. Cf. Hitchcock.
- Added t.-p. with vignette bears imprint: New York : Leavitt and Allen. 1855.
- This posthumous volume completes the series of Mr. Downing's works. It comprises, with one or two exceptions, all his editorial papers in the Horticulturist."--Preface.
- Local Notes:
- Title is held at Carpenters' Hall in the Library of the Carpenters' Company of the City and County of Philadelphia. Access to the books is restricted and available to researchers only by permission requested in advance.
- Carpenters' Company copy has accession number 3434; first recorded in 1857 Carpenters' Company Library inventory as no. 159 and in the 1857 Carpenters' Company Library Catalogue as no. 704.
- Cited in:
- Hitchcock, H. R. Amer. architectural books, 348
- OCLC:
- 233030906
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