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Dumbarton Oaks: A Guide to the Gardens
Masson, Georgina
Published by Dumbarton Oaks Trustees for Harvard University, 1968

 

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Dumbarton Oaks: A Guide to the Gardens is a historically significant document, as it is one of four texts that trace the history of the gardens through the twentieth century. This is the original guide published in 1968, one year before the death of Mildred Bliss. Bliss had continued to alter the gardens after designer Beatrix Farrand’s retirement in the 1940s. With Bliss’s death in 1969, the gardens were effectively “finished” (even though time will continue to transform them indefinitely). The guide is, thus, the text most representative of the gardens at the close of nearly a half-century of creative activity.

 

Title: Dumbarton Oaks. A Guide to the Gardens

Publisher: Dumbarton Oaks-Trustees for Harvard University, Washington, D. C.

Publication Date: 1968

Binding: Paper wrappers

Book Condition: A good copy, slight cover wear.

Edition: First edition.