The manner of raising, ordering, and improving forest-trees: with directions how to plant, make, and keep woods, walks, avenues, lawns, hedges, &c.

2nd edition very much corrected, xix (i) 276pp, engraved frontispiece, and 4 folding plates, contemporary panelled calf (worn, corners and edges restored, new endpapers), rebacked in lighter leather (raised bands, blind stamped in compartments, new morocco label gilt), index leaves and plates foxed, unobtrusive worm damage throughout mainly restricted to one or two holes with no loss of legibility, light stain from K7-M7, small illegible ink signature on the top of the title page, modern woodcut bookplate by Andy English on the front pastedown, 8vo (19.5x12.5cm), Henrey 40, ESTC T38948 Title continues "Also rules and tables shewing how the ingenious planter may measure superficial figures, divide woods or land, and measure timber and other solid bodies, either by arithmetick or geometry: with the uses of that excellent line, the line of numbers, by several new examples; and many other rules, useful for most men. Illustrated with figures, proper for avenues, walks, and lawns, &c.".