London Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green 1829

First edition. xx +1159pp illustrated with steel engravings + ivpp prospectus for Dr Lardner's Cabinet Cycopedia at the end. Green paper spine with paper label, reinforced with card beneath, marbled boards. Bookplate of Sir Richard Bagge on front paste down and Harry Lawrence, Bradfer-Lawrence F. S. A. on free end paper. Binding worn and rather chipped at edges. First edition with with the botanical text contributed by John Lindley. Sir Richard Bagge was born at Stradsett in Norfolk, son of Thomas Philip Bagge and Grace Salisbury. Thomas Bagge employed J. C. Loudon to layout and landscape his grounds at the hall making this an interesting association copy. Bradfer Lawrence was a renowned collector of manuscripts and part of his collection is at the University of Leeds. From Dolin Amery's library without signature.

London Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longmans 1838

8 volumes. Green blind stamped cloth. Illustrated with b/w line ills throughout. A little faded else a good set. Initially issued as a parts series from 1830 onwards, this is an exhaustive account of all the trees and shrubs growing in Great Britain and their history; notes on remarkable examples growing in individual gardens; drawings of leaves, twigs, fruits, and the shapes of leafless trees; and entire portraits of trees in their young and mature state. All were drawn from life, many being from the parkland grounds of Syon House, one of the homes of the Duke of Northumberland to whom the work was dedicated, or from Loddiges' arboretum. This work was published in three formats: with the plates entirely uncoloured, with botanical details hand-coloured, and fully hand-coloured. Work began in 1830 and it was first issued in sixty-three monthly parts from January 1835 to July 1838.

USA various 1880-1900

Fascinating collection of American trade cards. Various manufacturers. All but two in colour (chromolithographs). Some fold-outs. Most with printed prices on the rear. Various sizes: from 165mm x 165mm to 145mm x 85mm., All illustrate lawn mowers for domestic gardens with cutting in progress. Most of the illustrations show either women or children mowing the lawns suggesting this was considered an appropriate occupation for them. Some of the cards advertise junior models for children to use. Mechanical mowing became possible early in the 19th century by an English engineer named Edwin Budding. The first USA mowers were designed in 1870, by Elwood McGuire of Richmond, Indiana and by the mid 1880s they were a major export with many other manufacturers entering the field of production. The cards represent suppliers' advertising. One card has a tear to one corner and another has been badly folded else a good collection. Ancient reisdual glue marks on one or two where they may have been mounted.

Dublin Dublin: Graisberry & Campbell, Printers to the Right Hon. and Hon. the Dublin Society 1811

xxii+(10)+406+56pp, folding coloured frontispiece, Deckle edged paper. 235x145mm. Original boards, recent cloth spine with black title lettering. 8vo. depicts 'Salix acutifolia - Caspian Ozier. ' Walter Wade (c.1740-1825) reputation is based on two things. Firstly, his successful campaign to set up a botanic garden under the patronage of the Dublin Society, his design, planting and steering of the garden in its early years, and the establishment of the library of botanical and agricultural books; the second was his popularizing of botany by a series of free public lectures given from 1802 to 1823, accompanied by practical sessions in the garden. Secondly, his books and writings, the most substantial of which is offered for sale here. Fascinating book which reveals much about willows, their cultivation and uses. Refers to many owners and locations where they were grown.

London Printed by J. Rider, Little Britain. Sold by J. Scatcherd, NO. 12, Ave-Maria-Lane; By all the London Booksellers, and by Mrs Jones, Oxford. 1799

First (and only) Edition. iii, 95pp, with 3 b/w engraved, fold out plates. 8vo (20cm by 13cm.) Half calf with marble paper boards and gilt title on spine. Small stamp on top right IFC for binder Kerr & Richardson Ltd Glasgow. Top of spine rubbed, and book board edges a little worn, some foxing on inside front cover and initial pages else a very clean cop. Rev. Thomas Wright wrote three books on the subject of farming and land drainage over a 19 year period. This, the second of his writings, preceded his 1808 publication 'The Formation and Management of Floated Meadows.' Useful on methods of draining and flooding meadows, produced at a time when the landscape movement too was active in engineering lakes, water meadows and fish ponds as part of reconfiguring parklands. Uncommon.

London, Cacklegoose Press in association with the State Hermitage, St Petersburg 1995

416 pages, 60 colour plates, approx. 1,350 illustrations in black-and-white. Cloth binding in laminated full-colour dust jacket. Numbered limited edition. number 537. Commissioned and produced in 1773-4 for Catherine the Great of Russia, the Service was destined for a 'palace' she was building in English Gothick style between St Petersburg and her summer residence at Tsarskoe Selo. Surrounded by marshes, the palace was known as La Grenouillère, hence the device of a bright green frog that appears on every piece of the Service. The Empress particularly asked for views of landscape gardens, and many of the finest gardens in Britain are depicted, together with a great array of 'Antiquities' – ruined castles and abbeys, old manor houses, Cornish dolmens – as well as romantic landscapes, views on the Thames at London and even early industrial sites. This commemorative book, which was published in 1995 to mark the 200th anniversary of Wedgwood's. It presents for the first time the entire Service in colour and monochrome plates, with over 350 large detailed illustrations, 60 colour plates and more than 1,000 reference illustrations, with entries on each of the places depicted. It also includes essays on the making and decorating of the Service, the remarkable history of its survival in Russia, and on Catherine the Great's passion for things English. . Amongst landscapes and country houses featured are Stowe, Blenheim and Alnwick Castle for instance.