Melmillo 1983 printed by the Rocket Press, Oxfordshire

Decorated title page, unpaginted, decorations by John R Smith. Limted to 250 copies. no 235 of 250. card with decorated wrapper. Fine.

London B W Publications Ltd 1987

Large folio (620x450mm). 16 engraved plates after Rigaud, of which 4 are double page, original calf backed spine, gilt lettered. Marbled slip case. Slip case split along one edge and rather worn but the book itself is very good indeed. Limited to 450 copies. This is numbered F. This is the facsimile of the wonderful illustrations of Stowe by Rigaud to which is added descriptive notes by George Clark, a key authority on the Stowe landscape. Bookplate of Colin Amery.

Colchester and London Spottiswoode, Ballantyne & Co nd c 1921

9th edition. 110pp illustrated with b/w plates. 8vo. Wrappers with chromolithographic, colour plate of the gardens on the upper wrapper. Good copy. Centre fold shows further images of the nursery gardens, the remaining illustrations in back and white show the plants grown and documentary photographs of the processes of growing, their shops, show exhibits etc. A history of this firm founded in 1806.

London William S. Orr, Camden Corner 1839

viii, 142pp. Colour frontis and title page vignette + second title page, in total 17 stunning full page plates, all hand-coloured. Steel engraved plates in the text supporting details on methods of cultivation. 8vo. Original blind stamped cloth on upper and lower boards, gilt lettering and decoration on spine. All edges gilt. The colour title page is dated 1847 suggesting it was an addition, although the printed title page is given as 1839. A lovely book with useful contemporary material on individual fruits and their cultivation. At the time of writing , McIntosh was Head Gardener to His Grace the Duke of Buccleuch, at Dalkeith where he updated and modernised the gardens.

London Longman, Green, Longman and Roberts [1850] 5th edition 1859

124pp illustrated with b/w line illustrations showing green house structures he proposes. Sm 8vo. Blind stamped green cloth. Slightly sunned on spine else a nice copy of this small work on cultivation. Rivers worked at Sawbridgeworth Nurseries in Hertfordshire. Book label of Callander & Dixon Booksellers Whitehaven on front paste down. Thomas River's ran a renowned nursery supplying fruit trees. This was one and the same time a manual and promotional publication.

London G Nicol. (Printed for) 1797

First edition. 122pp. Original boards. Rebacked with paper spine and new paste down label. 8vo. Dedicated to the author's patron, Lord Viscount Grimston this is a key treatise in advocating the value of orchards as a means of production of fruit mainly for cider. With chapters of planting for success, problems with pests and diseases etc. [Henrey 534].

London G. P. Putnam 1927

308pp illus with b/w plates. Blue cloth. Edges a little worn and spine very slightly faded else good copy of this hard to find text on The Picturesque. This book was pioneering in the history of taste and which dragged, from relative, obscurity figures like Richard Payne Knight, "a Regency prophet of modernism," together with his contemporaries, and explored the links between painting and landscape design.

John Murray 1977

128pp illustrated with b/w plates. Extra illustration in front of half title. Limited to 75 copies, all signed by the author and illustrator. Marbled boards, gilt lettered spine in matching slip case. Edge of slip case a little rubbed else very good copy.

London Basilisk Press 1976

no 305 0f 515. Folio and oblong 8vo. 4 vols. Limited numbered edition of 515 sets, quarter red morocco gilt over marbled boards, in cloth box, a very good set. A sumptuous facsimile edition, the first published edition thus, of the surviving Red Books; Anthony House, Cornwall; Attingham Park, Shropshire and Sheringham Hall, Norfolk, with an explanatory volume by Edward Mallins containing recent photographs by Eric de Mare. Repton's drawings are meticulously reproduced in collotype and printed on wove paper as close as possible to the original Whatman stock.

Country Life 1913

5th edition. 177pp, colour frontis with tissue guard + many b/w photographic plates. Cloth sl. rubbed. White lettered titles on upper board, and gilt lettered spine. Previous owners name scribbled out on front end paper.