Landscape Art, Past and Present

Charles Scribner's Sons, 1923. First Edition. hardcover. Very Good. 9x6x1. Hardcover in slip case. Good binding and cover. Clean, unmarked pages. xxii, [1], 31 p., 2 l. : plates. ; 31 cm. Plates: Hanging Gardens of Babylon ; Temple gardens, Edfu, Egypt ; Garden of "Resht-i-Behesht," Shiraz, Persia ; Greek garden ; Villa of Pliny the Younger, Laurentium ; Gardens of the Villa Lante, Bagnaia ; Isola Bella, Lake Maggiore ; Gardens of the Villa Albani, Rome ; Fountain at the Villa Castello, Florence ; Basin of Latona, Versailles ; House of Willem van Son, Doornburg ; Wimple in the seventeenth century, Cambridgeshire ; Thoresby House, Nottinghamshire ; Old Garden in the Glen, Dalzell House, Lanarkshire ; An urn ; Vegetable sculpture ; Pope's garden, Twickenham ; Harleston Park, Northamptonshire / design by Repton ; Suburban house, Chicago ; New England estate, Brookline, Massachusetts ; Pacific Coast dwelling, Caramel Highlands, California ; Wild garden grasses, York Harbor, Maine ; A Monterey cypress, California ; Villagers dancing: Claude Lorraine ; Landscape: Salvator Rosa ; Walden Woods 1895-1921, Bluff 1895-1922, Homestead elm, "Ravello", Approach to the stone steps, Stone steps, In the ravine, Pergola, South vista, Woodland road from the bridge, "Fountain of the athletes" ; Carruth Cottage, Lake Forest, Illinois ; Walden Birch outlook at dawn, Birch outlook mid-afternoon, Ravine in spring, Ravine in summer, Ravine in winter, The house 1900-1921, Entrance drive, Ravine drive, Approach to the house 1896-1900, House from the east lawn 1896-1921, House from the west vista, Kitchen garden ; Riven Rock, Montecito, California ; Walden Lake view from the "Ravello", Beach, Evergreen vista ; Central Park, New York ; Kew Gardens, London ; Lincoln Park, Chicago ; Public playground, Chicago ; One of the Forest Preserves, Chicago ; [Walden Ravello]. <br> "Twelve hundred copies of this book have been printed at the Scribner press from type which has been distributed.