Switzer (S), THE PRACTICAL FRUIT-GARDENER. BEING THE BEST AN...

Hammer

£500

Switzer (S), THE PRACTICAL FRUIT-GARDENER. BEING THE BEST AND NEWEST METHOD OF RASING, PLANTING, AND PRUNING ALL SORTS OF FRUIT-TREES, AGREEABLY TO THE EXPERIENCE AND PRACTICE OF THE MOST EMINENT GARDENERS AND NURSERY-MEN, full leather, applied hand-written paper label to spine, Kenyon bookplate to inside front cover, laid paper, inscribed to from free endpaper, three foldout plans, inserted hand-written notes on ‘Sir Thos. Hanmer’s Directions For Pruning Fruit Trees’, printed for Thomas Woodward, London 1724, with De La Quintinye, THE COMPLETE GARD’NER: OR DIRECTIONS FOR CULTIVATING AND RIGHT ORDERING OF FRUIT GARDENS, AND KITCHEN GARDENS, third edition, abridged and improved by George London and Henry Wise, full leather, laid paper, engraved frontispiece, foldout plates throughout, printed for Andrew Bell, London 1701, and Mortimer (J), THE WHOLE ART OF HUSBANDRY: OR, THE WAY OF MANAGING AND IMPROVING OF LAND, fifth edition, Vol I, full leather, laid paper, engraved frontispiece, printed for R.Robinson, London 1721 (3)

Provenance: The Estate of Lord Kenyon, Gredington.