Landscape Gardening: notes and suggestions on lawns and lawn planting, laying out and arrangement of country places, large and small parks, cemeteries and railway station lawns, etc.

Cover designed by Alice Cordelia Morse American

Author Samuel Parsons American

Publisher G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York American

1891

Not on view

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Title: Landscape Gardening: notes and suggestions on lawns and lawn planting, laying out and arrangement of country places, large and small parks, cemeteries and railway station lawns, etc.
Artist: Cover designed by Alice Cordelia Morse (American, Ohio 1863–1961)
Author: Samuel Parsons (American, Bedford, Massachusetts 1844–1920)
Publisher: G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York
Date: 1891
Dimensions: Overall: 10 1/16 × 15 13/16 in. (25.6 × 40.1 cm)
Front cover: 10 1/16 × 6 7/8 in. (25.6 × 17.5 cm)
Front cover and spine: 10 1/16 × 8 7/8 in. (25.6 × 22.6 cm)
Classification: Bindings
Credit Line: Gift of Alice C. Morse, 1923, transferred from the Library
Object Number: 56.522.97
Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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