1978 - Victorian Landscape Gardening

Published 1978
Published By The American Life Foundation For The Athenaeum of Nineteenth Century America

Introduction By David Schuyler

 Facsimile reprint of 1870 edition by Jacob Weidenmann- “Beautifying Country Homes. A Handbook of Landscape Gardening”.

Weidenmann was born in Switzerland and studied botany in Zurich. in 1856 he immigrated to the United States where he saw opportunities in landscape gardening and received large commissions for his landscape designs.

Softcover

Four Full-page color plates with 23 full-page black and white plates, numerous smaller black & white drawings, binding tight, clean pages.

Very good condition.

Large Folio Size

Size: 10 1/4” x 13 1/2”