Search Results: Authors starting with H from J. A. Lascelles & Sons

London: Printed for the Author at the Office of the Farmers' Journal, 1821. Wraps. Good. 4to., 26cm.; 156pp. [1-3] 4-5 [6-7] 8-156.; Wove paper. Uncut gatherings. Presented in gray buckram clamshell with marbled paste downs. 19th C. gift inscription on cover "W. B. Thomas to Crawford Pait, Esq."

London: Printed for J. M. for Richard Wodnothe, in Leaden-hall Street next to the Golden-Hart, 1655. Third Edition. Good +. 4º, 17 cm.; 303 pp. First published in 1651 as a supplement to Richard Weston's 'Discours of husbandrie used in Brabant and Flanders" the book contains letters to Hartlib purportedly from Cressy Dymock and Robert Child. Hartlib, more of an enabler and patron than author, published numerous tracts on husbandry and agriculture. (ESTC, Fussell).

London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, And Green, Peternoster-Row, 1825. 1st Edition. Original Publisher's Board. Good. 8º, 22cm.; 220pp, [i-iii] iv-x [xi] [1] 2-3 [4-5] 6-220; Bookplate of American Zoologist Charles Atwood Kofoid on pastedown. Front board nearly detached. Wove paper. 19th C. bookseller ticket of John W. Miller, Ramsgate on rear pastedown. 20th C. inked title to paper spine.

Northampton: Printed And Published By T. E. Dicey, 1837. Second Edition. Pebbled Paper covered boards. Very good. 8º, 18 cm.; 106 pp.

Oxford: Printed for S. Parker, in the High-Street; and Sold by T. Payne, at the Mews Back Gate; and J. Fletcher, in St. Paul's Church Yard, London, 1766. 1st Edition. Stiff wraps. Very good. 8º, 111 pp.; 20th C. rebind in marbled wraps.

London: Edward Allde, 1593. 8th Edition. Limp vellum. 4to, 19.3 cm.; [vi], 164, [viii], 92pp., illust.; Lacking title page to first section, all else complete; significant conservation treatment with infill on both the cover and within the text block, very minimal loss of text to foot of p.90., unidentified hide cover with repaired losses, original side stab binding with top two cords repaired; darkening to two knot garden designs; presented in custom clamshell box. Recognized as the first English gardening book as well as the first English book on bees. This copy with numerous 16th/17th C. ms. annotations to the margins as well as to the inside covers. First appearing in ca. 1558 under the title "A most briefe and pleasante treatise, teachying how to dresse, sowe and set a garden" Hyll improved and enlarged the text in 1563 and in 1568 changed the title to "The profitable arte of gardening..." , which included the seperately titled treatise on bees, as well as the treatise on grafting and planting… Read More