Eden, or, A compleat body of gardening : both in knowledge and practice, directing the gardener in his work, for every distinct week in the year, in the kitchen-ground, flower-garden, and nursery, and shewing the proprietor those shrubs, plants, and flowers, which are most usually cultivated in gardens, or most worthy to be so : with the history, description, and figure of every kind, and their true culture and management : the raising of flowers according to English, French, and Dutch florists : the management of fruit trees in the present improved method, with a catalogue of fruits as they come in season : the culture of the kitchen ground, the making of hot beds, &c. and the raising of the products, in the natural, and artificial manner : illustrated with figures of about four hundred of the finest shrubs, flowers, and plants / by J. Hill ...

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hill, John, 1714?-1775.

Contributor:

Hale, Thomas.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gardening--Great Britain--Early works to 1800.

Gardening.

Penn Provenance:

Leisenring, Julia B. (donor) (RBC copy)

Physical Description:

[2], iv, ii, 714, [1], 714-716 p., [1], 80 leaves of plates : ill. ; 43 cm (fol.)

Edition:

The second edition, corrected, and enlarged with the addition of twenty folio plates of new plants, now first raised in the Royal Gardens at Kew.

Other Title:

Eden

Compleat body of gardening

Fingerprint:

r.e, ndnd iso- ItWo (7) 1773 (R)

Place of Publication:

London : Printed for the author ..., and sold by all Booksellers, MDCCLXXIII [1773]

Notes:

"First published in parts in 1756-57 as 'Compiled and digested from the papers of the late .. Mr. Hale'."--ESTC.

Signatures: pi² 2pi1 a1 B-8S² 8T1 [8U]².

Engraved title vignette and plates (including allegorical frontispiece with caption: The Genius of Botany explaining to the Gardner the Characters of Plants, while Flora & Pomona offer him their choicest Products, as Rewards of his Labour.).

Text printed primarily in double columns; printed marginalia.

"Directions to the Bookbinder for placing the Cuts.": Leaf a1v.

Includes index.

Local Notes:

RBC copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2017 by Julia B. Leisenring.

RBC copy has armorial bookplate of an unidentified former owner affixed to front pastedown.

Cited in:

ESTC T117432

Henrey, B. Brit. botanical lit., 805

Nissen, C. Botanische Buchillustration, 880

OCLC:

28005464