Guy Lowell Editor (2 results)
More imagesPublished by Bates & Guild Company, 1902
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: ROBIN RARE BOOKS at the Midtown Scholar, Harrisburg, PA, U.S.A.ROBIN RARE BOOKS at the Midtown Scholar
Contact seller5-star sellerHardcover. Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. American Gardens, Edited by Guy Lowell. Boston: Bates & Guild Company, 1902. First Edition. 112 plates, no pagination, 12.5 x 10.25", folio. In fair condition. Green cloth boards lightly scuffed at edges and corners. Head and tail of spine bumped. Gilt & painted deco on front board clean…& bright - presents very well. Gilt lettering on spine dulled, but still attractive. Front and rear gutters beginning to split with some exposed binding mesh. Light foxing to front end-page and half-title page. Text-block lightly toned around edges of leaves, but is otherwise clean. Binding is intact, hinges fragile. Please see photos and ask questions, if any, before purchasing. Guy Lowell (1870-1927) was an American architect and landscape architect. Born in Boston, Massachusetts, Lowell was the son of Mary Walcott (Goodrich) and Edward Jackson Lowell, and a member of Boston's well-known Lowell family. He graduated from Noble's Classical School (later Noble and Greenough School) in 1888 and from Harvard College in 1892, and received his degree in architecture from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1894. He then studied landscape and horticulture at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and architectural history and landscape architecture in the atelier of Jean-Louis Pascal at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, with diplomé in 1899. In the middle of these studies he married Henrietta Sargent, the daughter of the director of Harvard's Arnold Arboretum, Charles S. Sargent of Brookline, Massachusetts, on May 17, 1898. His commissions included large public, academic, and commercial buildings, as well as many distinctive residences, country estates, and formal gardens. He was the architect and landscape architect for the first Charles River dam, completed in 1910, which transformed the tidal river into the Charles River Basin. He designed five structures on the dam: the Upper and Lower Lock Gate Houses, the Stable, the Boat House, and an open pavilion. Lowell is perhaps most recognized for his design of two public buildings: the Boston Museum of Fine Arts (1906 09 and later additions) and the New York State Supreme Court building in New York City (1912 1914 and 1919 1927). Lowell also made a name for himself as a landscape architect. His obituary in The New York Times notes that he designed or "fitted up" gardens for the elder J. Pierpont Morgan, Andrew Carnegie, and the Piping Rock Club. Additional garden-related projects included those of T. Jefferson Coolidge, Mrs. Oscar Lasigi in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, and Payne Whitney in Manhasett on Long Island. Lowell designed many of the gardens and grounds for his numerous residential commissions as an architect, but the most significant project appears to have been the grounds of Harbor Hill (1905); the estate may have been Lowell's largest landscape architecture commission. A first Edition, with all plates. Gift quality. RAREA1902JPQX 04/24 - HK1449.
Published by Bates & Guild Company, Boston, MA, 1902
Seller: Riverow Bookshop, Owego, NY, U.S.A.Riverow Bookshop
Contact seller5-star sellerBoston, MA: Bates & Guild Company. Good plus condition: inner hinges weak/No Dustjacket. 1902. 4to., (xvii), 112pls . Good plus condition: inner hinges weak/No Dustjacket. Photographs (Black & White) (illustrator).
