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. With experimental directions for raising the several kinds of fruit-trees, forest-trees, ever-greens, and flowering-shrubs, with which gardens are adorn'd. To which are added, the various names, descriptions, temperatures, medicinal virtues, uses, and cultivations of several roots, pulse, herbs, &c. of the kitchen and physick garden, that are absolutely necessary for the service of families in general. Illustrated with great variety of grand designs, curiously engraven on twenty-eight folio plates, by the best hands. By Batty Langley, of Twickenham
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London : Printed for A. Bettersworth and C. Hitch, in Paternoster-Row; J. and J. Pemberton, in Fleetstreet; T. Bowles, in St. Paul's-Churchyard; J. Bowles, and J.Clarke, in Cornhill; and J. Wood, in Paternoster-Row, MDCCXXXIX. [1739]
The second edition.; ..
- Publication year
- 1739
- ESTC No.
- T149353
- Grub Street ID
- 195378
- Description
- [4],iii-xvi,[8],207,[1],191,[1]p.,plates ; 4°.
- Note
- The titlepage is a cancel
Pp.iv, v misnumbered xi,x
Part VII, 'Of the kitchen garden', has a separate pagination and register.
- Uncontrolled note
- Edition not in Blanche Henrey; presumably a reissue of the first edition with a cancel tp. P. 191 v. bears adv for J. Batley