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American Gardens in the Eighteenth Century:

American Gardens in the Eighteenth Century: "For Use or For Delight" Paperback - 1986

by Leighton, Ann

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Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1986. Paperback. Very Good. Paperback. xxi, 503pp+ index. Internally fine with clean text that has no underlining, highlighting or notes.
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  • Title American Gardens in the Eighteenth Century: "For Use or For Delight"
  • Author Leighton, Ann
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Condition Used - Very Good
  • Pages 544
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Massachusetts Press, Amherst
  • Date 1986
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Illustrated
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 28852
  • ISBN 9780870235313 / 0870235311
  • Weight 1.58 lbs (0.72 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.18 x 6 x 1.15 in (23.32 x 15.24 x 2.92 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: New England
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 86006975
  • Dewey Decimal Code 712.609

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From the rear cover

A most entertaining account of the plants and gardens of a fascinating era, based on the letters, journals, invoices, and books of men and women (among them George Washington, Manasseh Cutler, and Jane Colden) who were interested in the discovering, the growing, and the exchanging of plants of the New and Old World. - from review by Library Journal.

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About the author

Ann Leighton was the professional name of Isadore Smith (1902-1985), the renowned garden historian, scholar, author, designer and landscape architect who, with Catherine C. "Kitty" Weeks, designed the colonial-themed gardens at the Weeks Brick House in Greenland, New Hampshire in 1977. Among many commissions, Smith designed the garden at the 1677 Whipple House in Ipswich, Massachusetts, which is owned by the Ipswich Historical Society. Smith neatly summed up the staying power of her subject matter in a brief book-jacket teaser: "While buildings may decay and crumble, the plants of every age are still with us and need only to be collected and replanted to speak for the time and its people."