Washington's Gardens At Mount Vernon: Landscapes of the Inner Man
by Griswold, Mac
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0395929709
- ISBN 13
- 9780395929704
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About This Item
Boston: Houghton Mifflin. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1999. First Printing. Hardcover. 0395929709 . Inscribed on the half-title page by the author to garden historian and author Allyson Hayward. Brown cloth. Illustrated endpapers, black and white illustrations and photos, color photos and illustrations, acknowledgments, note, bibliography, and index. A vivid picture of eighteenth-century American gardening and lifestyle (from the front jacket flap). Photographs by Roger Foley. ; Oblong 8vo 8" to 9" tall; 192 pages .
Synopsis
For gardeners and readers of early American history, here is the first book to document the unknown George Washington --- landscaper, farmer, and gardener of Mount Vernon. Remarkably, the George Washington who spent forty-five years designing and planting the gardens at Mount Vernon is virtually unknown today, hidden behind the icon of the first president's frozen dignity. In her new book, Mac Griswold reveals to us a man who gathered seed, transplanted and pruned trees, and designed a kitchen garden, a pleasure garden, and even a botanical garden, where he did all the experimental work himself. Washington left for historians and restorationists a wealth of memos, directives, diaries, plans, and plant lists that documented every step of his creation (and now the recreation) of his gardens. Out of this wealth of archival material, Griswold paints a remarkably vivid picture of eighteenth-century gardening.
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- Old Saratoga Books (US)
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- 56874
- Title
- Washington's Gardens At Mount Vernon: Landscapes of the Inner Man
- Author
- Griswold, Mac
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0395929709
- ISBN 13
- 9780395929704
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1999
- Keywords
- 0395929709, Mount Vernon, Colonial American Gardens
- Bookseller catalogs
- The American South; Botany and Gardening;
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