The Victorian Gardens The Art of Beautifying Suburban Home Grounds, a Victorian Guidebook of 1870 Tapa blanda - 1977

American Life Foundation & Study Institute, 1977. Paperback. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

NY: American Life Foundation, 1977. Octavo. 274 pp; 55 illus. + 31 plates. Paperback. VG. A reprint of the 1870 edition, entitled: The Art of Beautifying Suburban Home Grounds of Small Extent.. Reprint. Soft Cover. Near Fine.

Watkins Glen, New York : Library of Victorian Culture, American Life Foundation, 1982. 7" wide by 10" tall. Bright, clean, tight, square copy. No creases. Appears unread. No remainder marks. No store stamp, owner's name or bookplate. Illustrated with 31 plates and many figures in the text. Facsimile reprint of Part I of the 1870 Edition The New Introduction by David Schuyler points out: "probably not more than a few dozen Victorian gardens remain relatively intact. Herein lies perhaps the greatest contemporary importance of Scott's Suburban Home Grounds and similar books: they are documents that make possible the restoration or appropriate replanting of gardens adjacent to late nineteenth-century homes." Original pictorial wraps. . First Edition Thus. Softcover. Near Fine condition. (ix), 274pp + 31 plates.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.