A book for those who would like to produce a border, or a fence, or a
complete garden and want an old design. The drawings and illustrations
were taken from rare prints and books difficult to find and expensive to
buy. The author gathered her data from American and English gardens of
the seventeenth, eighteenth, and early nineteenth centuries. The
appendix contains a list of thousands of plants. The botanical names
were traced and arrangement into groups made by Dr. and Mrs. Bayard
Hammond of the Botanical Department of Johns Hopkins University. 10 × 13
inches. Drawings and illustrations. $5.00.
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Southern Antiques, by Paul H. Burroughs.
This book covers the field of furniture-making over a period of two
hundred years, from 1620 to 1820, and is concerned with that part of the
old South which comprised the original colonies of Maryland, Virginia,
North and South Carolina and Georgia. The text is arranged by sections
according to the kinds of furniture illustrated and described. Profusely
illustrated. 8½ × 11 inches. Drawings and illustrations. $5.00.
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Homes and Gardens in Old Virginia, edited by Susanne Williams Massie and
Frances Archer Christian for the Garden Club of Virginia.
This book tells of more than one hundred and fifty homes and gardens in
every part of the Old Dominion. The authors include H. J. Eckenrode,
Lyon G. Tyler, Rosewell Page, Alexander Weddell, Harold Jefferson
Coolidge, Arthur Kyle Davis, Robert A. Lancaster, Amélie Rives (Princess
Troubetzkoy) and many others. 6¾ × 9½ inches. 130 full-page
illustrations. $5.00.
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Thomas Jefferson: Architect and Builder, by I. T. Frary.
This is the first book published covering Jefferson’s complete work as
an architect. The unusually fine photographs were made by the author and
include exteriors, interiors, detail studies and landscapes, as well as
reproductions of Jefferson’s original drawings. I. T. Frary, author,
lecturer, teacher, is an authority on architecture. Covers stamped in
gold. Introduction by Fiske Kimball. 8½ × 11 inches. 96 full-page
illustrations. $5.00.
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In the Picturesque Shenandoah Valley, by Armistead C. Gordon.
The story of the great Valley of Virginia told as only Armistead Gordon
could tell it—of its scenery, its streams and mountains, its many
caverns, and better than all, its famous people. 6 × 9 inches. Maps and
illustrations. $2.50.
GARRETT & MASSIE, _Publishers_
Richmond, Virginia
$1.00
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