Switzer, Stephen. The Nobleman, Gentleman and Gardener’s Recreation: Or, an introduction to Gardening, Planting, Agriculture, and the other business and pleasures of a Country life. 1st. Ed. Pub. B. Barker and C. King. 1715
pp.[viii], xxxiv, 266, [16] with engraved frontis. 8vo. Hardback. From the library of internationally renowned, English garden designer, Rosemary Verey (1918-2001), with her bookplate to the front paste-down. Two small holes to p.xxxi, with missing letters supplied in early hand, o/w. contents in fine condition. Very handsomely bound in original full calf-leather, decorated Cambridge panel binding, lightly marked in places. Acceptable wear at spine ends, to external hinges and the corners of the boards; the binding is still very firm and overall in vg. condition. Scarce. Was £1,750.00.
This was eminent garden designer Stephen Switzer’s first published work. He dedicated the book to the Marquess of Lindsey, for whom it is thought that Switzer designed the gardens at Grimsthorpe Castle, near Bourne in Lincolnshire (Blanche Henry). It contains the first lengthy historical review of the development of gardening in England.
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