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Beautifying country homes. A handbook of landscape gardening, illustrated by plans of places already improved

Author Jacob Weidenmann American, born Switzerland
Publisher Orange Judd and Co. American
Lithographer Herman Bencke American
1870
Not on view
40 pages and 24 plates with text, illustrating the author's designs for Bushnell Park and Cedar Hill cemetary, Hartford, plus works by others in southern New England and New York. Binding of purple cloth stamped with gold.

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  • Title: Beautifying country homes. A handbook of landscape gardening, illustrated by plans of places already improved
  • Author: Jacob Weidenmann (American (born Switzerland), Winterthur 1829–1893)
  • Publisher: Orange Judd and Co. (New York, NY)
  • Lithographer: Herman Bencke (New York, NY)
  • Date: 1870
  • Medium: Illustrations: color lithographs and wood engravings
  • Dimensions: 14 × 10 11/16 × 9/16 in. (35.5 × 27.2 × 1.5 cm)
  • Classifications: Books, Ornament & Architecture
  • Credit Line: Gift of Miss M. Weidenman, 1952
  • Object Number: 52.593
  • Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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