The Greening Pictorial System of Landscape Gardening
by Greening, Charles E
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Asheville, North Carolina, United States
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About This Item
Monroe, MI: Charles E. Greening, 1910. First edition. Hardcover. Good. Square 4to (11"x11"). 165pp. 1/2 bound morocco leather & pebbled brown cloth with giltstamped title, red edgestain. Half of spine cover missing; heavy deterioration to boards at head spine extreme. Heavily rubbed corners with boards exposed & peeling leather. Several small stains to upper cover. Photos throughout. Subtitled: "Being a System of Decorative Planting Based on Pictorial Art, Whereby Grounds are Made Beautiful by Tasteful Compositions of Trees, Shrubs, Vines and Flowers Artistically Arranged. It is Designed for the Easy Comprehension of Amateur Gardeners and as a Reference Book for Landscape Architects, the Object of the Author Being to Educate Those Who are Earnestly Interested in the Beautification of our Cities and Homes. The Illustrations Contained are True Photographs Which, With the Descriptive Reading Matter Attached, Portray the Best Examples of Art Gardening, Easily Understood Even by Those Who are Inexperienced in Landscape Designing
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- Bookseller
- Downtown Books & News (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3615
- Title
- The Greening Pictorial System of Landscape Gardening
- Author
- Greening, Charles E
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Charles E. Greening
- Place of Publication
- Monroe, MI
- Date Published
- 1910
- Bookseller catalogs
- Architecture;
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