Contourscaping by Root Ralph Rodney (3 results)
Published by Ralph Fletcher Seymour, Chicago, 1941
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: J. HOOD, BOOKSELLERS, ABAA/ILAB, Baldwin City, KS, U.S.A.J. HOOD, BOOKSELLERS, ABAA/ILAB
Contact seller5-star sellerHardcover. 1st edition limited to 1000 copies. 246pp. Numerous b/w illustrations & one in colour. Cover lightly soiled, one bumped corner, else very good condition with text clean and binding tight.
More imagesPublished by Ralph Fletcher Seymour, Chicago, 1941
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Bookworks [MWABA, IOBA], Beloit, WI, U.S.A.Bookworks [MWABA, IOBA]
Contact seller5-star sellerCondition: Used - Very good
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Add to basketHard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Edition. "A New Book on Landscaping", emphasizing groupings, form, color & distance, to fit specific settings. Hardcover in jacket, as pictured. Light wear to book, paint smudge to upper edge, couple of other minor stains, corners lightly bumped; jacket smudged…, torn, rubbed & heavily chipped, with paint smear to upper corner; endsheets tanned. Text clean; 246 pages; index, drawings, plans, b/w plates, one color plate. Size: Quarto. Margrette Oatway Dornbusch, Frank Polito, Vories Fisher (illustrator).
Published by Ralph Fletcher Seymour ( 1941 ), Chicago, 1941
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Thomas J. Joyce And Company, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.Thomas J. Joyce And Company
Contact seller1-star sellerHardcover. Condition: Fine. First, Limited Edition. Quarto, 246 pages, beige cloth. Scarce. Ralph Rodney Root taught landscape gardening at the University of Illinois. His previous books covered landscape gardening. This innovative work presents his arguments for Countourscaping. " . the opinion of the many [is] that anyone havi…ng anyting to do with horticultural things is a landscape architect. A result of this general misunderstanding is that a larger percentage of landscaping is done witout the aid of trained professional landscapers and consists only of a display use of decorative plant material with no foundation of design . that begins with the basic principles of design and ends with a funtional countoural use of color form plant material and light, in designed countourscaping. The basic element of all countourscaping is color form plant material and light and it is by its right selection, to fit both the peculiar environmental and aesthetic requirements of each project, that begins the foundation of countourscaping as a fine art." - p.15. Drawings by Margrette Oatway Dornbusch; landscape renderings by Frank Polito; photographs by Vories Fisher.
