Soft cover, 261 pages.
This book describes the work of Andrew Jackson Downing, a prominent American landscape gardner and proponent and designer of the small inexpensive detached house in a nonurban setting - the cottage. The book is replete with desings/illustrations of various cottages, descriptions of building and materials used, as well as landscape architecture drawings.
A bookplate found Inside the Front Cover indicates this book was presented to The Germantown Historical Society by L. M. Holloway in 1988.