DOWNING, ANDREW JACKSON. A Treatise on the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening, Adapted to North America. . . . Sixth Edition, Enlarged, Revised and Newly Illustrated with a Supplement . . . by Henry Winthrop Sargent. Frontispiece portrait of Downing, 3 text illustrations, 34 engraved or lithographed plates. Thick 8vo, publisher's gilt- and blind-stamped cobalt blue cloth, tips and spine ends bumped; faint dampstain to lower marginal gutter of preliminaries. Ex-collection Smiley Brothers, Inc., dba Mohonk Mountain House. New York: Moore & Co., 1859
important first revised printing with supplement by Sargent, with treatment of Central Park and New Jersey's Llewellyn Park, America's first (romantically planned) suburban "Neighborhood Park," laid out by A. J. Davis between 1853 and 1869. Originally published 1841, this was one of the most influential books of the nineteenth century in the field of landscape gardening and design. Dumbarton Oaks 153. Hitchcock 368.
