Presence of the Past: A History of the Preservation Movement in the United States before Williamsburg

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1965. Cloth, 386 pages, illustrations, portraits; 24 cm. Topstained red. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Price-clipped dust jacket, worn at extremities, protected in a mylar cover. CONTENTS: Foreword, by Walter Muir Whitehill; Introduction; The Earliest Attempts: The Pattern for the Future; The Shadow of Mount Vernon; The South and Its Great Men; The Middle Atlantic States: Restoring Memorials of the Revolution; New England, the Home of Militant Private Preservation Organizations; Preservation Work in the Far West; National Preservation Organizations Working Locally; Monticello: the Second Mount Vernon; Antiquaries, Architects and Museum Directors; William Sumner Appleton and the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities; Criteria for Selecting Buildings Worthy of Preservation; Techniques of Restoration; The Economics or Preservation; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index.. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo.