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The Crowning of the American Landscape : Eight Great Spaces and Their Buildings
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The Crowning of the American Landscape : Eight Great Spaces and Their Buildings Hardcover - 1985

by Creese, Walter L

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Princeton, New Jersey:: Princeton University Press, 1985. 8.75" wide by 11.25" tall. A clean, square, tight copy. Sharp corners. Inner hinges are perfect. The Dust Jacket is bright and shiny, with two short (less than 1 inch) closed tears on the rear panel. No chips. No owner's name or bookplate. No remainder mark. Pages are fresh and crisp. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. Much on the designs of Frederick Law Olmstead, Frank Lloyd Wright, Alexander Jackson Downing, Thomas Jefferson, etc. Illustrated throughout with maps, prints, and 154 photographs, including 16 full-color plates. The author is Professor of Architectural History, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Handsomely bound in the original dark green cloth, lettered in shiny gold over a medium green panel on the spine. Index. From the Dust Jacket: "Walter Creese analyzes the historical essence of eight distinguished American sites and their architecture [i.e. Yosemite, the Hudson Valley, Jefferson's Charlottesville, Mt. Hood National Park, the Boston Fens, Graceland Cemetery, Chicago's Riverside, Wright's Taliesin Valley]. Eight maps and striking photographs -- 16 in color and 138 in black-and-white -- accompany descriptions of how artists-intellectuals made natural spaces particularly intriguing and helped Americans initiate a closer physical and spiritual relationship with their landscape." . First Edition.. Oversize Hardcover. Fine condition./Very Good dust jacket.. xi, 290pp..
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