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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
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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