Author: Van Rensselaer, Mrs. Schyler
Title: Art Out of-Doors. Hints on Good Taste in Gardening
Publication Information: New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1893
Call #: SB472 .V27 1893
Book Size: 18.5 cm (H); 12.5 cm (L); 3 cm (spine)
Cover: Green cloth cover; white embossed front cover with two trees crossed in the center; one with flowers, one tree with leaves and berries. Roots of trees showing. Banner intertwined among the branches of both trees: "Ce qu'a no jardins sont les fleurs les arts le sont la vie". Shears and compass in center, where trees cross. "Art Out-of-Doors" in white on the bottom of the front cover ; green coming through the white. Back cover: plain. Spine: title and author name in gold; central design of shears and compass in gold; Scribner's at the bottom of the spine in gold.
Inside Book Covers: Plain paper
Paper Edges: unadorned
Illustrations: none
Comments:
- epigraph from Bacon
- Dedication: "To the friends in Brookline who taught me to care for the Art which stands nearest to nature (in all caps)
- Preface - signed "M..G. Van Rennsselaer"
- contents - 18 chapter with titles
- appendix - "Books on Gardening Art"
- "The Author is indebted to the editors of Garden and Forest for permission to recast much material which first appeared in their journal'
- each chapter has an epigraph (from Schiller, Emerson, Gilpin, Evelyn, Herbert, etc.)
- Ads in the back of the text: "Outing Books for Spring and Summer" note titles, descriptions, prices - books on wildflowers, common birds, poems of "Gun and Rod", my farm of Edgewood, etc.
- Signature on the page that starts Chapter I
Pedagogical Uses/Notes:
- Late 19th-Century American Text Production
- Gardening and Environment
- Gender
- Epigraphs
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