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BRIGGS, Loutrel W. CHARLESTON GARDENS. Columbia: University
of South Carolina Press, 1951. First edition. Briggs was a New York born landscape architect who opened an office in Charleston in 1929 and designed numerous private gardens there during a forty year practice. He also took an active interest in historic preservation of Charleston landscapes and his book is a valuable study of the gardens there. Its text is divided into four sections: Historical and Botanical Background (exploring the settlement of Charleston, early plant importations, etc); Old City Gardens and Their Flowers; Newer City Gardens (focusing upon plant material) and Plantation Gardens. The numerous photographs by R. Adamson Brown and others are supplemented by plans of older gardens measured and drawn by Briggs. 4to (27.8 x 21.2 cm ); xviii + 155 pp. with over 200 illustrations in black and white from photographs and plans + color frontispiece. Original cloth; in pictorial dust jacket with tears. $250.00
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