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The gardener's new Kalendar : divided according to the twelve months of the year, and under each month into the separate weeks : illustrated with elegant and useful figures : containing the whole practice of gardening under the four general heads, 1. The pleasure garden, 2. The kitchen ground, 3. The seminary, 4. The fruit garden and orchard : and directing what is to be done every week, and the manner of doing it, with the general culture of hardy, greenhouse, and stove plants, the raising tender annuals, and the management of flowers : the system of Linnaeus is also explained in this work and illustrated with figures : exhibiting the characters of all the classes : and the method of designing, and laying out a garden in the modern taste : with a copper plate figure, elegantly engraved, from a drawing of Mr. Wale, after a design laid down in The compleat body of gardening.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection SB97 .H5 1758 Frost copy
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hill, John, 1714?-1775.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Gardening--Early works to 1800.
- Gardening.
- Gardening--Calendars--Early works to 1800.
- Genre:
- Calendars.
- Booksellers' advertisements -- England -- London -- 18th century.
- Penn Provenance:
- Frost, Robert (donor) (Frost Collection copy)
- Calvert, Nicolson (autograph) (Frost Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- iv, 428 pages, 3 folded leaves of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm (8vo)
- Fingerprint:
- r-th ednd d.r, isri (3) 1758 (R)
- Place of Publication:
- London : Printed for T. Osborne ... T. Trye ... and S. Crowder and Co. ..., MDCCLVIII [1758]
- Notes:
- "Anonymous. By Sir John Hill."--ESTC.
- Signatures: A² B-2D⁸ 2E⁶.
- Leaf 2E1 signed "E".
- Engraved plates and head-pieces.
- Woodcut factotums and tail-pieces.
- Printed marginalia.
- Booksellers' advertisement on verso of title leaf.
- Local Notes:
- Frost Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2010 by Robert Frost.
- Frost Collection copy has autograph ("Nicolson Calvert"), probably of Nicolson Calvert (d. 1793), at head of title leaf.
- Cited in:
- ESTC T40424
- Henrey 737
- OCLC:
- 15158816
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