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  First edition of Frederick Law Olmsted: Landscape Architect 1822-1903; inscribed by Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr. to Calvert Bowyer Vaux

  OLMSTED, Frederick Law. Edited by Frederick Law Olmsted Jr. and Theodora Kimball.

  Frederick Law Olmsted: Landscape Architect 1822-1903: Early Years and Experiences Together with Biographical Notes.

  New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1922.

  First edition of the first volume of the autobiography of one of the foremost figures in American landscape architecture, Frederick Law Olmsted. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated, tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait of Olmsted. Edited by Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr. and Theodora Kimball. Association copy, inscribed by Frederick Law Olmsted on the front free endpaper, “C. Bowyer Vaux from [printed calling card: Mr. Frederick Law Olmsted. Brookline, Mass.] Philadelphia. December 13th 1922.” The recipient, Calvert Bowyer Vaux was the son of English-American architect and landscape designer Calvert Vaux, who brought in the elder Olmsted (who had never before designed a landscape) to plan what was to be their most famed and celebrated effort, New York’s Central Park. Vaux, on his own and in various partnerships, designed and created dozens of parks across the northeastern United States, most famously in New York City, Brooklyn, and Buffalo. He introduced new ideas about the significance of public parks in America during a hectic time of urbanization. This industrialization of the cityscape inspired Vaux to focus on an integration of buildings, bridges, and other forms of architecture into their natural surroundings. In 1865, Vaux and Olmsted founded Olmsted, Vaux and Co., which...

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