Search Results: Titles starting with F from J. A. Lascelles & Sons

London: Printed for J. Hodges, at the Looking-Glass, over-against St. Magnus Church, London-Bridge, 1747. 1st Edition. Full calf. Very good. 8º., 20cm.; 275 pp. An edited expansion of Trowell's 1739 'Farmer's Instructor'. Ellis was sure to advertise his seed drill and manure hopper on top of Trowell's condensed text as well as to offer criticism and elaboration of Trowell's original text. Ellis issued a second edition in 1850. (Fussell II).

London: Printed for W. Strahan; W. Nicoll, No. 51. in St. Paul's Church-yard; B. Collins, at Salisbury; and J. Balfour, at Edinburgh, 1770. 1st Edition. Original Publisher's Board. Internally Very Good. 8º, 2 vols., 458 pp., 500 pp.; Quarter paper with publishers boards, uncut deckled page edges; Chipping and soiling to paper spine cover. Contemporary Ms. vol. number on spine. Boards rubbed and age toned.

London: Printed by T.R. and M.D. for the Company of Stationers, 1672. Full calf. 4to, 20 cm.; [148 pp.], pagination of final leaves of main text being misnumbered; gilt-ruled mottled calf covers, corners rubbed and worn through, head and foot of spine worn, else Very Good. An enlarged edition of "A hundreth good pointes of husbandrie", first published in 1557. (ESTC).

London: Printed for Lackington, Allen, and Co, 1812. Full calf. Internally Very Good. 4º, 23 cm.; 338 pp.

London: MacMillan & Co, 1892. 2nd Edition. Buckram. Thomas, F. Inigo. 8º, 20cm. ; xxx, 244pp.; cream colored buckram with gilt flower urn, topiary and swallows pressed on cover, gilt title to spine, edges tinted green; signed in pencil on fly leaf by author Reginald Blomfield; B. H. Blackwell Booksellers, Oxford, ticket to lower fr. pastedown; covers soiled and spine darkened, slightly cocked, interior very good. The more desirable 2nd edition. In reply to William Robinson's forceful essay 'Garden Design and the Architects' Garden' Blomfield released this second edition within the same year as the first with a new, greatly expanded preface. Blomfield and Robinson would come to represent two opposing visions of the English garden, which pitted landscape gardeners against architects. It was a debate that would largely be resolved by the work of Edwin Lutyens and Gertrude Jekyll over the following 20 years.

London: MacMillan & Co, 1901. 3rd Edition. Buckram. 8º, 20cm. ; xvi, 250pp.; cream colored buckram with gilt flower urn, topiary and swallows pressed on cover, gilt title to spine, edges tinted green; spine darkened with small abrasion, interior very good. The preface to the third edition has Blomfield in a more conciliatory and reflective mood after his stinging rebuke to William Robinson in the preface to the 2nd edition. Blomfield does not mention Robinson's name here (referring to him only as 'a writer with a turn for petty sentiment' , but alludes to the controversy between landscape gardeners and architects.

London: MacMillan & Co, 1892. 2nd Edition. Buckram. Very good. Thomas, F. Inigo. 8º, 20cm.; xxx, 244pp.; cream colored buckram with gilt flower urn, topiary and swallows pressed on cover, gilt title to spine, edges tinted green; small booksellers stamp to front pastedown: C.E. Thomas, Worthing; covers lightly soiled, interior very good. The more desirable 2nd edition, in relatively clean covers. In reply to William Robinson's forceful essay 'Garden Design and the Architects' Garden' Blomfield released this second edition within the same year as the first with a new, greatly expanded preface. Blomfield and Robinson would come to represent two opposing visions of the english garden, which pitted landscape gardeners against architects. It was a debate that would largely be resolved by the work of Edwin Lutyens and Gertrude Jekyll over the following 20 years.

Northhampton: Printed by Peter Mackenzie, County Press Office, Sheep-street, 1808. ; London: Printed for James Scatcherd, No. 12, Ave-Maria Lane, 1796, 1808. 1st Edition. 1/2 Calf. Good. 8º, 21cm.; 207pp, 3 pls.; Marbled covered boards; corners worn through and staining, cover rubbed, toned. Very Good otherwise. Scarce title. This copy retains the called for, yet often lacking, Dissertation: 'Large Farms, Recommended in a National View. A Reply to Mr. Wright's Address to the Public on the Monopoly of Small Farms', 27pp.