gardening landscape

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin , 1st, 1907, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in red cloth-backed brown papered boards with paper spine label, numerous figures & all 22 plates present, many with before/after overlays, no markings. 252 pages, tissue-guarded color frontispiece with overlay. 28 diagrams within the text. Designed by Bruce Rogers, second spine label laid in at rear.

Hardcover. NY, John Wiley & Sons, 4th pr., 1002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 256 pages, illustrated in color and b&w. A national authority on this emerging field offers a comprehensive guide to the art and science of designing, erecting and maintaining an outdoor lighting system. Presents in-depth coverage on how to plan, design and build a project; reviews all technical components and materials; discusses specific issues of landscape design setting and its elements--plants, sculptures and structures, water features, etc. Packed with hundreds of detailed photos, sketches, plans and drawings. Clean copy.

Softcover. Cambridge MA, The MIT Press, 1st, 1997, Book: N, Softcover, 119 pages. Ultimately, Viewing Olmsted is a savvy and thought-provoking, yet diminutive picture book. The collaboration of three brilliant photographers under the sponsorship of the Canadian Centre for Architecture, it guides the reader down three highly personal, present day tours of legendary parks designed by Olmsted, the patron saint of American landscape architecture. Happily, though, its readers are left to intellectually fend for themselves as to meanings or implications of Frederick Olmsted's work, genius, and lasting influence as the man who designed such famous spaces as Central Park. Academics and artists will appreciate the fresh visual perspectives offered on the man's legacy, the sometimes soothing, sometimes haunting nature-by-design retreats for the urban soul. Those with more than a passing interest in the ways in which man interacts with his `natural' surroundings will appreciate vistas evocative of place rather than time. To the authors' credit, the book raises more questions than it answers, and is of a scale to fit neatly into a travel case. Far from definitive, the book is, nevertheless, a must have for architects, landscape architects, photographers, and Olmsted aficionados.