Rural Essays.
New York: Putnams, 1853. First edition. Half-Leather on marbled boards. Octavo, pp. lxxi, 557, illustrated w/drawings. Posthumous collection of Downing's contribution to the Horticulturist , 550 pages of mid-19th century common sense, including essays on greenhouses, ice houses, all manner of landscaping, current growth in building,etc. Hitchcock 347. A very..... More