A TREATISE ON THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF LANDSCAPE GARDENING, ADAPTED TO NORTH AMERICA; WITH A VIEW TO THE IMPROVEMENT OF COUNTRY RESIDENCES. COMPRISING HISTORICAL NOTICES AND GENERAL PRINCIPLES OF THE ART . . . WITH REMARKS ON RURAL ARCHITECTURE.

Downing, A.J. [Andrew Jackson Downing], 1815-1852. James M. McCallum, 1806-1889 (original owner).

Published by New York - London: George P. Putnam, 155 Broadway - Longman, Brown, Green & Longmans, 1852.

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Full title - A TREATISE ON THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF LANDSCAPE GARDENING, ADAPTED TO NORTH AMERICA; WITH A VIEW TO THE IMPROVEMENT OF COUNTRY RESIDENCES. COMPRISING HISTORICAL NOTICES AND GENERAL PRINCIPLES OF THE ART, DIRECTIONS FOR LAYING OUT GROUNDS AND ARRANGING PLANTATIONS, THE DESCRIPTION AND CULTIVATION OF HARDY TREES, DECORATIVE ACCOMPANIMENTS TO THE HOUSE AND GROUNDS, THE FORMATION OF PIECES OF ARTIFICIAL WATER, FLOWER GARDENS, ETC. WITH REMARKS ON RURAL ARCHITECTURE. FOURTH EDITION, ENLARGED, REVISED, AND NEWLY ILLUSTRATED. (Spine title: Landscape Gardening and Rural Architecture.") Paged as i-xiv, 17-532. Hardcover: H 23.75cm x L 15.5cm. Original blueish-green cloth rubbed with soiling and staining; board corners bumped and worn; shallow chipping/wear at spine ends; slender 4.5cm surface chip at upper front joint/spine affecting some title lettering; small surface chip at spine center; spine's gilt lettering and gilt tree vignette dulled/flaked but all still easily discernable. Antiquarian ink inscription "James McCallum - 1859" on front free endpaper's upper center; old ink blot at frontispiece's fore-edge margin affecting preceding flyleaf and successive tissue guard and title page; a few creased page corners; foxing/toning strongest on book's unpaged b/w plates and their adjacent leaves. Binding is firm. Provenance from a multi-generational collection of books acquired from a Tupelo, Mississippi estate with the family having Pulaski, Tennessee roots. Thus the book's aforementioned ownership signature allows for a firm attribution to James M. McCallum (1806-1889), an early Giles County, Tennessee attorney, state legislator, and author. McCallum served as Clerk and Master of the Giles County Chancery Court from 1842-1861 thereafter representing Giles County in the Tennessee General Assembly from 1861-1863 and representing Tennessee in the Confederate Congress from 1864-1865. Approx. shipping weight = 3 pounds. {Antiq-Shelf#2}.

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• Title: A TREATISE ON THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF LANDSCAPE GARDENING, ADAPTED TO NORTH AMERICA; WITH A VIEW TO THE IMPROVEMENT OF COUNTRY RESIDENCES. COMPRISING HISTORICAL NOTICES AND GENERAL PRINCIPLES OF THE ART . . . WITH REMARKS ON RURAL ARCHITECTURE.
• Publisher: New York - London: George P. Putnam, 155 Broadway - Longman, Brown, Green & Longmans, 1852.
• Binding: Hardcover
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