WEIDENMANN, JACOB. Beautifying Country Homes. A Handbook for Landscape Gardening. 24 color lithographed hors text plates of private estates and parks mostly from southern New England and New York, printed by H. Benecke, many double-page, and 84 wood-engraved illustrations in the text. Small folio, publisher's cloth, edge worn; title loose, otherwise internally bright and clean. Ex-collection Smiley Brothers, Inc., dba Mohonk Mountain House. New York: Orange Judd and Company, (1870)
first and only edition of this scarce chromolithographed work on american landscape design. Weidenmann became superintendent of parks in Hartford, Connecticut in 1861 where he designed its Bushnell Park and Cedar Hill Cemetery. He later moved to New York City in 1871, and worked with F. L. Olmsted on Prospect Park in Brooklyn and superintended construction of several suburban estates. He became Olmsted's partner in 1874, and the two men designed Congress Park in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., and the Schuylkill Arsenal outside Philadelphia. Not in Hitchcock.
