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TITLE CONTINUED: as likewise in the greenhouse and stove, with the method of performing the different works, according to the best practice of the most eminent gardeners. Also an appendix, giving full and ample instructions for forcing grape vines, peach, nectarine trees, &c. in a new manner, never before published. Illustrated with thirteen plates, neatly engraved, of entire new plans for stoves, greenhouses, forcing frames, and designs for laying out kitchen, flower, and pleasure gardens, agreeable to the modern taste. To the whole is added, A Catalogue of Kitchen Garden Plants and Herbs, with the parts made Use of in COOKERY; Fruit Trees of the best sorts, bulbous-rooted Flowers, annual, biennial, and perennial herbaceous flower Plants, Herbs for Distilling and Medicine, Forest Trees, Flowering Shrubs and Evergreens, with great Variety of curious Greenhouse and Stove Plants, being a much more complete list than any hitherto published in Works of this Kind. Selected from the diary manuscripts of the late Mr. Hitt, formerly gardener to Lord Robert Manners, at Bloxholm, in Lincolnshire, and to Lord Robert Bertie, at Chislehurst in Kent. Revised, corrected, and very much improved, with many new additions, by James Meader, late gardener to the Earl of Chesterfield. FIRST EDITION 1771, 2 LEAVES MISSING FROM PRELIMS, pages 3-6, now replaced with facsimiles. 8vo, approximately 175 x 100 mm, 7 x 4 inches, 13 engraved illustrations, 1 folding, pages: 8, 1-530 plus 1 advert leaf, bound in quarter modern calf, gilt lettered green label, gilt rules and gilt name and date to spine, marbled boards, new black endpapers. First free endpaper soiled with old ink names and text, page 530 and last blank with old ink name and date 1776, pale damp stain affecting top and bottom margins, just running into text of about 60 pages, 2 leaves facing each other have closed tear at lower part neatly repaired, no loss to text, small ink splash to 1 index page, all text legible, small ink spots affect some pages at end, a few other minor spots or stains, otherwise a good copy. See: Blanche Henrey, British Botanical and Horticultural Literature, Volume 3, page 60, No. 846; ESTC T127674, 5 copies listed in UK libraries and 5 in USA , 7 copies listed in Library Hub Discover. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST AND ALL PARCELS SENT FULLY TRACKED AND FULLY INSURED.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Fourth Edition. 15-volume set (complete). A well-preserved set of George Steevens' 1793 15-Volume edition of Shakespeare's works, in original full calf. The leather has become dry and cracked with age, and there is some chipping and rubbing to the corners of the boards and heads and feet of the spines, but the binding remains fully intact. The hinges and joints of several volumes are cracked, but holding well. The front board of Volume 3 has been neatly re-attached with linen hinges. Book pages have normal age related wear with some foxing, mainly around endpapers, but overall are clean and unmarked and in excellent condition. The front pastedown of each volume has the bookplate of Edward King, with coat of arms and the motto 'Kings Ay to Kin Kindlie'. Volume One has handwritten note, with initials "E.K", on front free endpaper "This is known as 'Steevens' Own Edition' and is by many considered the most accurate and desirable edition published." Overall, very sound and presentable. Shipped Weight: Over 3 kilos. Category: 750; Add. Inventory No: 201005PHB5-01. Please note, due to the size and weight of this item, extra shipping charges may apply. .…

First Edition. First edition, 12mo, pp. iv, [1], 14-172; folding frontispiece facsimile plus 2 other facsimile plates (1 folding); original blue paper-covered boards, brown paper shelfback, printed paper label on spine; label rubbed, crack in the bottom third of the front joint; all else very good and sound. Halkett & Laing attribute this to Madamoiselle R. d' Ancemont, likely a pseudonym and the text is likely a fabrication.…