Washington's Gardens at Mount Vernon:
de GRISWOLD, MAC
- Usado
- good
- Estado
- Good
- Librería
-
NORTH HAMPTON, New Hampshire, United States
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Sobre este artículo
1999. Good. GRISWOLD, MAC. Washington's Gardens at Mount Vernon: Landscape of the Inner Man. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1999. A Frances Tenenbaum Book. Oblong 4to, pp.192, illustrated in color from photographs by Roger Foley, and in halftone from old prints. Index, notes. Photographic endpapers. Dj. NEW.
Sinopsis
For gardeners and readers of early American history, here is the first book to document the unknown George Washington --- landscaper, farmer, and gardener of Mount Vernon. Remarkably, the George Washington who spent forty-five years designing and planting the gardens at Mount Vernon is virtually unknown today, hidden behind the icon of the first president's frozen dignity. In her new book, Mac Griswold reveals to us a man who gathered seed, transplanted and pruned trees, and designed a kitchen garden, a pleasure garden, and even a botanical garden, where he did all the experimental work himself. Washington left for historians and restorationists a wealth of memos, directives, diaries, plans, and plant lists that documented every step of his creation (and now the recreation) of his gardens. Out of this wealth of archival material, Griswold paints a remarkably vivid picture of eighteenth-century gardening.
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- Librería
- Landscape Books
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 10278
- Título
- Washington's Gardens at Mount Vernon:
- Autor
- GRISWOLD, MAC
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Good
- Fecha de publicación
- 1999
- Palabras clave
- WASHINGTON GEO, MOUNT VERNON, LANDSCAPE HIST, GDN VIRGINIA, GDN COLONIAL, 0395929709
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Landscape Books
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NORTH HAMPTON, New Hampshire
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Landscape Books specializes in books about garden history, garden design, landscape architecture, and city planning.
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