Washington's Gardens at Mount Vernon
by Mac Griswold
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0395929709
- ISBN 13
- 9780395929704
- Seller
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Brattleboro, Vermont, United States
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About This Item
Inscribed by the author. First edition. NF/NF. Excellent condition with minimal wear. Ships wrapped in bubble wrap and packed with care in a box.
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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- Bookseller
- Lost Time (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 050424-16
- Title
- Washington's Gardens at Mount Vernon
- Author
- Mac Griswold
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0395929709
- ISBN 13
- 9780395929704
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1999-05-15
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