£550
Langley (B), NEW PRINCIPLES OF GARDENING: OR THE LAYING OUT AND PLANTING PARTERRES, GROVES, WILDERNESSES, LABYRINTHS, AVENUES, PARKS &c, AFTER A MORE GRAND AND RURAL MANNER, THAN HAS BEEN DONE BEFORE, first edition, full leather, Kenyon bookplates to inside cover and front free endpaper, laid paper, fold out frontispiece, title page printed in black and red with advertisement verso, twenty one foldout plates and six double page plates, loose ‘Directions To The Binder’, A. Bettesworth, J. Batley et al, London 1728
Provenance: The Estate of Lord Kenyon, Gredington.
Fold out frontispiece, title page, advertisement and dedication to the King all un-numbered. Introduction pp iii-xvi (iv and v mis-numbered but present and in correct order). Contents and Catalogue of Herbs un-numbered. Three foldouts before text begins. Part I text first page un-numbered, then pp2-24, three foldouts, then Part II text first page un-numbered then pp26-110, three foldouts, then Part III text first page un-numbered, then pp 112-146, three foldouts, then Part IV text first page un-numbered, then pp148-166, two foldouts, then Part V text first page un-numbered, then pp168-190, three foldouts, then Part VI text first page un-numbered, then pp192-207. Blank page and Part VII first page un-numbered, then pp2-191 (pp122-123 mis-numbered as 114 and 115). 'Books printed for and sold by J. Batley...' un-numbered, six foldouts, 'Directions to the binder' applied to free endpaper.
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