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Natural history & gardening
Wasteland
Vittoria Di Palma
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- Author
- Vittoria Di Palma
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Year
- 2014
- Edition
- First edition · not confirmed
- Binding
- Hardback
- Dust jacket
- Yes – Very Good
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN
- 9780300197792
About this copy
This is the first edition, first printing, indicated by the full number line (10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1) on the copyright page. The book examines eighteenth-century English cultural attitudes toward landscapes traditionally viewed with fear and contempt -- swamps, mountains, and forests -- and is illustrated throughout with historical images including husbandry manuals, maps, gardening treatises, and landscape paintings dating back to the 1600s. Hardcover in original illustrated dust jacket.
The jacket front reproduces a detail from The Pilgrim's Progress Dissected (London, 1790); the back reproduces a painting attributed to John Sell Cotman, St. Benet's Abbey, ca. 1810, from the Yale Center for British Art.
Condition
- Book
- Very Good -- text block appears clean and tight, no inscriptions noted.
- Dust jacket
- Very Good -- bright and unworn in the photographs provided, though the front flap (with printed price) was not photographed, so clipped status cannot be confirmed.
This is a pre-owned book, and minor age-related wear may be present beyond what is specifically mentioned. All readily visible defects have been described to the best of my ability. Please see photos, which form part of the description.
Collector's notes
- Illustrated with 23 color and 84 black-and-white illustrations
- Yale University Press, 2014, first printing
- Jacket and book design by Jeff Wincapaw
- Front jacket art from The Pilgrim's Progress Dissected (1790); back jacket art attributed to John Sell Cotman
This is a pre-owned book. Please look at every photograph: they show its true condition.
