Henry Shaw's Victorian Landscapes: The Missouri Botanical Garden and Tower Grove Park by Grove, Carol

Henry Shaw's Victorian Landscapes: The Missouri Botanical Garden and Tower Grove Park (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781952620096)

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Format: Hardcover
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Henry Shaw's Victorian Landscapes: The Missouri Botanical Garden and Tower Grove Park by Grove, Carol

Henry Shaw's Victorian Landscapes: The Missouri Botanical Garden and Tower Grove Park

$40.00
Henry Shaw's Victorian Landscapes: The Missouri Botanical Garden and Tower Grove Park by Grove, Carol

Henry Shaw's Victorian Landscapes: The Missouri Botanical Garden and Tower Grove Park

$40.00
Format: Hardcover
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Carol Grove chronicles Englishman Henry Shaw's remarkable story, from his early love of plants to his rising social conscience and his determined quest to create a place of unsurpassed beauty and distinction that would educate and thereby improve Americans. Beautifully illustrated with contemporary and historical photographs, this volume offers an insightful cultural history of Shaw's landscapes at the Missouri Botanical Garden and Tower Grove Park, among the most important examples of the gardenesque in America.

Author: Carol Grove
ISBN-10: 1952620090
ISBN-13: 9781952620096
Publisher: Library of American Landscape History
Language: English
Published: 01/01/2005
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.20lbs
Size: 10.24h x 7.32w x 0.94d
By Carol Grove
By Carol Grove
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CAROL GROVE, adjunct assistant professor of art history and archaeology at the University of Missouri-Columbia, is author of Henry Shaw's Victorian Landscapes: The Missouri Botanical Garden and Tower Grove Park (LALH, 2005).

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