Common Landscape of America, 1580 to 1845 - signed by the author.
New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1982. Second Printing. Color Pictorial Wraps. Small quarto, pp. 429, indexed, illustrated with b/w photographs. Signed by the author on the front endpaper neatly in ink. Very Good. Item #23669
Focusing on vernacular design and its evolution, the author effectively demonstrates how builders (rather than professional designers) passed on their traditions from one generation to the next, in so doing shaping America's enduring attitudes toward landscape. An original and fascinating study. Winner of the 1982 Francis Parkman Prize for literary distinction in the writing of history. The author was associate professor of landscape architecture and visual and environmental studies at Harvard University.
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