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An Essay Upon Gardening,: Containing a Catalogue of Exotic Plants for the Stoves and Green-houses of the British Gardens ...
by STEELE, Richard
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- first
- Condition
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- Seller
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Lebanon, New Jersey, United States
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About This Item
York: Printed for the Author, by G. Peacock, 1793. First edition. 4to. 3 folding engraved plates, each with letterpress explanatory leaf. Half-title, list of subscribers, with additional leaf of subscribers and author's apology for errors, errata leaf at end of first part. Later nineteenth-century half calf, red morocco spine label; rebacked with spine laid-down, some foxing to plates, second plate trimmed with some loss to lower margin and legend, occasional marginal spotting or toning, mostly to explanatory leaves opposite plates Describes many of the exotic plants cultivated in England. Of particular note are plants from Australia collected by Sir Joseph Banks and Daniel Solander during Cook's Endeavour voyage. PROVENANCE: John Ireland Blackburne, Esq. (etched bookplate); D. Shirley (signature on pastedown) REFERENCE: ESTC T82581; Henrey 1384
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- Bookseller
- Bull's Head Rare Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 100833
- Title
- An Essay Upon Gardening,
- Author
- STEELE, Richard
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Printed for the Author, by G. Peacock
- Place of Publication
- York
- Date Published
- 1793
- Keywords
- Australia
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About the Seller
Bull's Head Rare Books
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Lebanon, New Jersey
About Bull's Head Rare Books
Bull's Head Rare Books was established in 2020 by Alex Obercian after more than a dozen years in the New York City book trade. BHRB deals in rare books and manuscripts in all fields, with specialties in literature, bookbindings, architecture, photography, science and medicine and country-life pursuits — gardening, farming and landscape design.
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- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Calf
- Calf or calf hide is a common form of leather binding. Calf binding is naturally a light brown but there are ways to treat the...
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- G
- Good describes the average used and worn book that has all pages or leaves present. Any defects must be noted. (as defined by AB...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Rebacked
- having had the material covering the spine replaced. ...
- Errata
- Errata: aka Errata Slip A piece of paper either laid in to the book correcting errors found in the printed text after being...
- Morocco
- Morocco is a style of leather book binding that is usually made with goatskin, as it is durable and easy to dye. (see also...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
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