LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE 19TH CENTURY ANDREW DOWNING 1ST PRINTING HORTICULTURE

Description: APOSTLE of TASTE ANDREW JACKSON DOWNING 1815-1952by - DAVID SCHUYLERThe John Hopkins University Press, Baltimore 1996, Very good trade paperback. Tight binding, solid spine, clean unmarked text. Illustrated. 290 pages.Apostle of Taste is the first full-length biography of Andrew Jackson Downing, the horticulturist, landscape gardener, and prolific writer on architecture who, more than any other individual, shaped middle-class taste in the United States in the two decades prior to the Civil War. Through his books and the pages of the Horticulturist, Downing preached a gospel of taste that promoted the modern or natural style of landscape design over the formal and geometric arrangements that were the hallmark of eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century gardens.Loc: E-9StoreAdd to FavoritesFeedbackLANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE 19TH CENTURY ANDREW DOWNING 1ST PRINTING HORTICULTURE APOSTLE of TASTE ANDREW JACKSON DOWNING 1815-1952by - DAVID SCHUYLERThe John Hopkins University Press, Baltimore 1996, Very good trade paperback. Tight binding, solid spine, clean unmarked text. Illustrated. 290 pages.Apostle of Taste is the first full-length biography of Andrew Jackson Downing, the horticulturist, landscape gardener, and prolific writer on architecture who, more than any other individual, shaped middle-class taste in the United States in the two decades prior to the Civil War. Through his books and the pages of the Horticulturist, Downing preached a gospel of taste that promoted the modern or natural style of landscape design over the formal and geometric arrangements that were the hallmark of eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century gardens.Loc: E-9

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