Boston: John P. Jewett and Company, 1859. x, 813 p. Replete with detailed and delicate diagrams and illustrations. 2 page map for Laying Out a Country Place. 8 plates - index of conservatory, grapery, and example residences. Some spots on edge. Illustrated initials. Hardcover. Brown cloth, with a few minor marks. Owner's stamp on title-page, dedication page, and p. 347. Light fingerprints and spots, mild foxing.
A jewel of the 19th century idealization of pastoral harmony, Country Life is a thorough study of all aspects of a model rural estate, including advice on designing and maintaining such areas as the kitchen-garden, farm, ornamental grounds, grapery, greenhouse and orchard. Copeland, an architect, landscape designer, and town planner originally from Massachussets, laid out landscapes, cemeteries, campuses, and towns from western Pennsylvania to Nova Scotia, but his estate in BeaverBrook, MA was the model for the ideals discussed in this book.