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.

University of Pennsylvania Press 1999

448pp with 66 colour and 228 b/w illustrations. New copy. This is a study of the colourful flowers and blossoming shrubs which adorned the Georgian landscape garden. It focuses on the historical reconstruction of the formal and horticultural characteristics of shrubberies and flowerbeds, but also discusses the transmission of planting lore, and interaction between landscape designer, client, nurseryman, land agent, and gardener in modifying and transforming the geometric layouts of previous generations. Laird offers readers a wealth of visual and literary materials—from contemporary paintings, engravings, poetry, essays, and letters to more prosaic household accounts and nursery bills—to revolutionize our understanding of the English landscape garden as a powerful cultural expression.

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].

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.