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    Andrew Jackson Downing: Essential Texts (Firsttion)

    Andrew Jackson Downing: Essential Texts (Firsttion)


    $35.00

    • Format: Trade Paperback
    • 304 pages
    • Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
    • Published: June 2012
    • ISBN-10: 0393733599
    • ISBN-13: 9780393733594

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    Andrew Jackson Downing (1815 1852), a much-sought-after designer, influential writer, and editor of The Horticulturist, was an internationally known shaper of opinion. Robert Twombly has selected thirty-three essays on Architecture and Building, Landscape Gardening, Parks and Other Public Places, Village Beautification, Horticulture, and Agricultural Education, and provides an introduction to Downing 's life and work and suggestions for further reading. A collection of essential writings by the father of landscape architecture and the urban park movement in the United States.
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