Forty Years of Landscape Architecture: Being the Professional Papers of Frederick Law Olmsted, Senior; Volume Two: Central Park as a Work of Art and as a Great Municipal Enterprise

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, (1928). First edition. 8vo; pp. xvi, 575; frontispiece and other illsutrations from photographs and facsimiles, folding map with overlay; bibliography. VOLUME II ONLY. Spotting to one panel of folding map; backstrip faded; a good copy or better in original cloth, in a used dust jacket.. The second volume only of the two-volume set (Volume I dealing with Olmsted's somewhat adventurous life before he became a landscape architect) and the more interesting volume of the two, dealing exclusively with the design, construction and maintenance of Olmsted's most enduring work, The Central Park. Item #008195

Price: $175.00