America's romance with the English garden

by Thomas J. Mickey

Paper Book, 2013

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Withdrawn

Call number

SB457.6.M53 2013

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Publication

Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, c2013.

Description

The 1890s saw a revolution in advertising. Cheap paper, faster printing, rural mail delivery, railroad shipping, and chromolithography combined to pave the way for the first modern, mass-produced catalogs. The most prominent of these, reaching American households by the thousands, were seed and nursery catalogs with beautiful pictures of middle-class homes surrounded by sprawling lawns, exotic plants, and the latest garden accessories-in other words, the quintessential English-style garden. America's Romance with the English Garden is the story of tastemakers and homemakers, of savvy business

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ISBN

9780821420355
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