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Baltimore: Norman Munder, 1919. 4to. (12 x 8 1/2). With 56 half-tone photographic illustrations reproducing celebrated Arnold Genthe's photographs and a fold-out plan of John D. Rockefeller's country estate. Text by the estate architect Welles Bosworth. Publisher's quarter cloth and boards, bound with gray cloth ties in the Japanese manner. Exceptionally nice copy of a fragile book. Visual examination of the gardens at Kijkuit, a Beaux-Arts garden on The Rockefeller country estate. This book features the gardens at Kijkuit, a John D. Rockefeller country estate near Tarrytown, NY. Kijkuit -- meaning look-out -- was the name given by the 17th century Dutch settlers to the hill-top on which the Rockefeller country estate was eventually built. The gardens were designed by Welles Bosworth who has written a Foreword and brief text with the later assistance of the architects Delano and Aldrich. The gardens were designed in the fashionable neoclassical style influenced by Italian gardens (see Edith…
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THE GARDENS OF KIJKUIT.
by BOSWORTH, WELLES
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Japan paper endpapers in branch and leaf design printed in light gray/green. Front paste-down foxed; light smudge to bottom corners of blank preliminary page, half-title and edge of frontispiece. With an embossed card of Nelson A. Rockefeller as New York Governor. Exceptionally nice copy of a fragile book. With 56 half-tone illustrations reproducing Arnold Genthe's beautifully evocative photographs and a folding plan of John D. Rockefeller's country house garden in Pocantico Hills, New York. Genthe describes Rockefeller's reaction to his photographs in his autobiography, As I Remember. The gardens were designed by Welles Bosworth who has written the Foreword and brief text with the later assistance of the architects Delano and Aldrich. They were designed in the fashionable neoclassical style influenced by Italian gardens (see Edith Wharton's Italian Villas and Their Gardens). A Japanese garden and temple are included. One of the best surviving examples of Beaux-Arts gardens in the United States.
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- Format/Binding Gray boards with spine sewn with gray cloth threads in the Japanese manner.
- Book Condition Used - Near Fine
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- Binding Hardcover
- Publisher Privately Printed
- Place of Publication Baltimore: Norman Munder
- Date Published 1919
- Size 4to
- Keywords Garden, Rockefeller, Photography, Genthe, Architecture, Delano and Aldrich , Landscape Design, Landscape
- Size 4to
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