The Planter’s Guide. A practical essay on the best method of giving immediate effect to wood by the transplanting of large trees and underwood.

pp.xxi, xlviii, 518 with portait frontis. and six further plates. 8vo. Hardback. With neat ownership insc. dated 5th Oct. 1848 to title page. Some spotting to blank margins of plates o/w. contents fine. Original cloth with gilt motif in vg. plus condition with some discoloration to rear board, some sunning spine and light shelf-wear to extremities. The scarce, preferred, extended third (and last) edition. Steuart developed a particular method for transporting and transplanting large ornamental trees, which was used successfully throughout Great Britain although it proved to be impractical in America because of the climate. Sir Walter Scott enthusiastically reviewed the work in The Quarterly Review when it was first published in 1828.