Zion Robert L.Trees for Architecture and the Landscape: Condensed Edition.New York, 1968

Robert L. Zion. Trees for Architecture and the Landscape / photographs by Maude Dorr, Peter Lieberstein, and others. — Condensed edition.

New York; Cincinnati; Toronto; London; Melbourne: Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, [1968]. — 208 p.: photographs, map. — ISBN 0-442-21567-3. — Price on cover: $10.95.

Large-format softcover with a tree illustration. Slight rubbing and yellowing at the edges of the cover, tape residue on the endpaper near the spine. The text block is clean. Condition: good.

INFORMATION

The cover features a "Sugar Maple" — an ink drawing by Jacques Hnizdovsky, as stated on the back: "Jacket illustration: Sugar Maple. Ink drawing by Jacques Hnizdovsky". Trees were one of Hnizdovsky's main themes, and this is the image that made him known with his woodcuts.

Robert Zion is an American landscape architect, co-author of New York's Paley Park. The book is a practical guide for architects: winter and summer "portraits" of deciduous trees, photographed from a single point, sections on planting and care, data for design, and lists of trees by state. For Hnizdovsky collectors — a rare example of his book graphics for an American publisher.