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Washington's Gardens At Mount Vernon: Landscapes of the Inner Man
de Griswold, Mac
- Usado
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0395929709
- ISBN 13
- 9780395929704
- Librería
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Selkirk, New York, United States
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Sobre este artículo
Boston: Houghton Mifflin. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1999. First Printing. Hardcover. 0395929709 . Inscribed on the half-title page by the author to garden historian and author Allyson Hayward. Brown cloth. Illustrated endpapers, black and white illustrations and photos, color photos and illustrations, acknowledgments, note, bibliography, and index. A vivid picture of eighteenth-century American gardening and lifestyle (from the front jacket flap). Photographs by Roger Foley. ; Oblong 8vo 8" to 9" tall; 192 pages .
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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Detalles
- Librería
- Old Saratoga Books
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 56874
- Título
- Washington's Gardens At Mount Vernon: Landscapes of the Inner Man
- Autor
- Griswold, Mac
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- First Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0395929709
- ISBN 13
- 9780395929704
- Editorial
- Houghton Mifflin
- Lugar de publicación
- Boston
- Fecha de publicación
- 1999
- Palabras clave
- 0395929709, Mount Vernon, Colonial American Gardens
- Catálogos del vendedor
- The American South; Botany and Gardening;
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