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Field Book Of Western Wildflowers
Maragret Armstrong, J. J. Thornbern, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
xx, 596 pages color frontispiece, illustrations, color plates. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections book cover exhibition Bound to Please, fall 2022. "With five hundred illustrations in black and white, and forty-eight plates in color drawn from nature by the author." Publisher should be G. P. Putnam's Sons. Includes index. Decorated publisher's binding. Title lettering and cover design by Margaret Armstrong, emboss in gold on red cloth, light-orange on edges. "Eighth printing, August 1926" Armstrong was one of the first women to descend to the bottom of the Grand Canyon. She is credited with discovering new flower species there.
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The Art of Landscape Architecture: its development and its application to modern landscape gardening
Samuel Parsons, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
xxi, 347 p., [46] leaves of plates : ill. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections book cover exhibition Bound to Please, fall 2022. Includes bibliographical references (p. 337-341) and index. Lowthorpe Collection Bound in gray cloth. Front cover board has a decorative illustration to the center. A circular medallion with a landscape scene is set within a line motif with decorative patterning, stamped in gold and black.
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Royal Palaces and Parks of France
Francis [pseud.] Miltoun, Blanche McManus, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
viii, 371 p., [41] leaves of plates : ill. (some col.), plans. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections book cover exhibition Bound to Please, fall 2022. Includes index. Includes illustrated lining papers.
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Italian Villas and Their Gardens
Edith Wharton, Maxfield Parrish, Decorative Designers, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
xii, 270 pages : illustrations (some color). Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections book cover exhibition Bound to Please, fall 2022. Title within ornamental border. "Published November, 1904"--title page verso. "Architects and landscape-gardeners mentioned": pages 253-266. Includes index. Cover board, bound in dark green cloth, has an elaborate image of lions on a pediment stamped in gold. Below the lions is a multi-colored image of a garden and fountain scene. Below this image is a wide gold ornamental base in which the dark green cloth contrasts with the title, author, illustrator information. Cover design by cover design by Decorative Designers. This firm was unique in that it employed a number of designers, and each was responsible for certain aspects of a design—an early example of division of labor in creative work. The founder of the firm was Henry Thayer (1867–1940) who was trained as an architect (following the example of Stanford White, architect-book cover designer). Thayer was responsible for much of the lettering produced by the firm, and Emma Redington Lee Thayer (1874–1973), another important woman designer, executed the beautiful decorative borders and designs. copy 1 Lowthorpe Collection (cover repaired). copy 2 cover in good condition. Decorative Designers (Firm) cover designer.
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The Flower Beautiful
Calrence Moores Weed, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
x, 136 pages : illus., leaves of plates (incl. front). Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections book cover exhibition Bound to Please, fall 2022. Embossed color illustration on cover. Lowthorpe Collection.
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Old Time Gardens
Alice Morse Earle, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
xviii, 489 pages : illus., leaves of plates. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections book cover exhibition Bound to Please, fall 2022. Includes index. Stamped, color illustration on cover. c. 1 Lowthorpe Collection.
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How to Know the Ferns : a guide to the names, haunts, and habits of our common ferns
Frances Theodora Parsons (Mrs. William Starr Dana), Marion Satterlee, Alice Josephine Smith, and Special Collections
xiv, 215 p. : ill., front. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections book cover exhibition Bound to Please, fall 2022. Includes indexes. Gift of the Estate of Eleanor M. Phillips
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How to know the wild flowers : a guide to the names, haunts, and habits of our common wild flowers
Mrs. William Starr Dana (Frances Theodora Parsons), Special Collections, and Fleet Library
xxxix, 346 p., [48] leaves of plates : ill. (some col.). Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections book cover exhibition Bound to Please, fall 2022. Second edition, with colored plates. 71st thousand. Illustrated by Marion Satterlee and Elsie Louise Shaw.
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Art Out-of-Doors
Mariana Griswold Van Rensselaer (Mrs. Schuyler Van Rensselear), Special Collections, and Fleet Library
x, 399 pages. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections book cover exhibition Bound to Please, fall 2022. Includes bibliographical references (pages 387-399). Lowthorpe Collection Bound in green cloth. Front cover board has an illustration of two stylized trees at crossed angles. A ring circles the cross point of the trees and an open pair of shears and an open compass intertwine the ring.
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Landscape Gardening
Samuel Parsons, Alice C. Smith, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
xxii, 329 pages : illustrations. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections book cover exhibition Bound to Please, fall 2022. Includes index. Both copies Lowthorpe Collection. Bound in green cloth. Front cover board has a decorative floral motif stamped in gold within a rectangular box, to lower center of the board. Below the title and author are small floral motifs stamped in gold. Floral motifs are stamped in gold on the spine, and a vertical floral border is stamped in gold (a few inches in from the spine) on the front and back cover boards. Binding design by Alice C. Morse. Copy 2 is a 1904 reprint of the 1891 edition and identical except that it measures 24 cm.
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