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Observations on the formation and management of useful and ornamental plantations : on the theory and practice of landscape gardening : and on gaining and embanking land from rivers or the sea : illustrated with plates / by J. Loudon ...
Fine Arts Library - Rare Book SB471 .L87 1804
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Loudon, J. C. (John Claudius), 1783-1843.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Landscape gardening.
- Tree planting.
- Reclamation of land.
- Woodlots.
- Genre:
- Advertisements -- Scotland -- Edinburgh -- 19th century.
- Penn Provenance:
- Wardlaw-Ramsay, R. B. (bookplate)
- Physical Description:
- xiv pages, 3 unnumbered pages, 18-342 pages, 18 unnumbered pages, X leaves of plates : illustrations (some folded) ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Edinburgh : Printed for Archibald Constable & Co. ... : and Longman Hurst Rees & Orme, London, 1804.
- Notes:
- Plates II and VIII after p. 93; plate I after p. 132; plate III after p. 150; plates IV and V after p. 152; plate VI after p. 154; plate VII after p. 230; plate IX (folded) after p. 322; plate X (folded) after p. 332.
- Advertisements on last printed leaf.
- Errata on p. xiv.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Perkins Books and Archives Fund.
- Penn Libraries copy has engraved armorial bookplate of R.B. Wardlaw-Ramsey pasted over another armorial bookplate on front pastedown; a few ms. bookseller's notes in pencil on front pastedown; some leaves unopened.
- OCLC:
- 23900403
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