Planting And Rural Ornament. Being A Second Edition With Large Additions, Of Planting And Ornamental Gardening, A Practical Treatise.

2 Volumes. 8vo. pp. 1 p.l., [v]-xxxii, 408, [8]index; 1 p.l., [v]-xx, 454, [4]index, [2]ads. lacking half-titles? contemporary sprinkled calf (spines worn & chipped, spine labels wanting or defective, front covers detached). Second Edition, revised and enlarged, of Planting and Ornamental Gardening (1785). "[This] is a treatise on the art of planting and laying-out plantations, and much of the work is devoted to a catalogue of trees and shrubs alphabetically arranged ‘under the generic names of Linnaeus: with a description, and the propagation, of each species’…[This] second edition contains additional information on planting, and on rural ornament (the laying out of grounds), and descriptions of some noted estates visited by the author together with his critical remarks and suggested improvements. Included in this list of estates is Persfield, near Cheapstow, formerly the seat of Mr. Valentine Morris; Stowe, near Buckingham, the seat of the Marquess of Buckingham, Fisherwick, the Marquess of Donegall’s estate near Lichfield; the Lesowes where Shenstone lived and died; and the near-by property of Enville belonging to the Earl of Stamford." (Henrey, II pp. 527-28. The work also includes Horace Walpole’s essay on modern gardening (with the last paragraph omitted), taken from the 1782 edition of Anecdotes of Painting in England. Henrey III 1229 [vide PLANTING].…