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A treatise on the theory and practice of landscape gardening : adapted to North America : with a view to the improvement of country residences ... : with remarks on rural architecture / by A. J. Downing, Esq.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Downing, A. J. (Andrew Jackson), 1815-1852.
- Series:
- Historical Garden Design Online. Sources from the 16th to the 19th centuries ; GDH-50.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Architecture, Domestic.
- Landscape gardening.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xvi, 576 p., 34 p. of plates ) ill. ;
- Edition:
- 8th. ed., enl., rev. and newly illustrated.
- Contained In:
- Historical Garden Design Online. Sources from the 16th to the 19th centuries
- Place of Publication:
- New-York : Orange Judd & Company, [c1859]
- Notes:
- "Supplement to the 6th ed. ..." by Sargent: p. [425]-572.
- First published in New York, 1841; 7th ed.: 1865.
- Includes index.
- Plates are steel engravings by H. W. Smith; H. Jordan after H. J. Davis; J. Duthie and James Smillie after J. D. Smillie; Robert Hinshelwood after J. D. Smillie and E. W. Nichols, all signed in the plate. Also included are "engravings on wood" and "engravings on stone" (cf. p. xvi)
- Portrait of the author on t.p. verso.
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