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By: Hix, John
Price: $38.00
Publisher: New York, NY, U.S.A., Phaidon Press, Incorporated: 1996
Edition: First Printing
Seller ID: 1608
4to. 239 pgs. As New hardcover in As New jacket, clean and unmarked. Illustrated throughout with historic and contemporary drawings, etchings, lithographs and photographs. The author traces the evolution of glass enclosures from the mid-seventeenth century when the desire to nurture exotic plants in a foreign and often hostile climate led to the development of the glasshouse and ingenious mechanical support systems capable of maintaining a suitable microenvironment. Sec... View more info