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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.

Historical Garden Design Online Available online

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Downing, A. J. (Andrew Jackson), 1815-1852.
Contributor:
Hinshelwood, Robert, 1812-1879.
Sargent, Henry Winthrop, 1810-1882.
Smillie, James, 1807-1885.
Smith, Henry Wright, 1828-
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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