Rural Studies with Hints for Country Places
New York: Charles Scribner & Co., 1867. 8vo (18.8 x 12 cm). 295 pages. 3-page advertisements at end. Original green cloth, gilt-lettered on spine. A near fine copy with some light wear to gilt at foot of spine and pale discoloration to endpapers. Item #406583
FIRST EDITION, BAL's first state with final page of Preface paged iv. The book's aim, according to its preface, "is to stimulate those who live in the country, or who love the country, to a fuller and wider range of thinking about the means of making their homes enjoyable... I have especially sought to excite the ambition of those holders of humbler estates, who believe that nothing can be done in the way of adornment of country property, except under the eye of accomplished gardeners." BAL 13944.
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