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Paperback. New.

Hardback. New.

London: Robinson & Roberts, 1768. 3rd Edition 3rd Printing. Hardcover. Good/Not called for>. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Half calf over marbled boards. An attractive volume. Seven copper plates six folding. Internally clean. Unfortunately the title page is missing. Still a good clean tight copy of a classic on the cultivation of fruit trees. Third edition with additions. Suitable for the gardener who doesn't want to spend huge money on a complete copy but yet desires an 18thc edition ot this work.

London: Printed for the Author,, 1757. Hardcover Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo. viii, 392, (vii)pp. Bound in later grey quarter cloth over plain boards, with printed paper spine label. Covers slightly worn and marked, slight scattered foxing to contents, lack 2 of the 7 plates, otherwise very good.

London: Robinson and Roberts, 1768 Third edition, with additions since the first of 1755. Hardcover book . Full leather, neatly re-backed and with new endpapers (not recently done), gilt title on red morocco label to spine, and 5 raised bands with gilt border lines. Pages: Preface viii, 394pp, plus index. 21 x 14cm. With 7 engravings in plates as called for, 6 of them fold-outs. A Very Good copy. Binding sound, covers clean with bright gilt; the page faces unfoxed and clean apart from a few minor marks, ; the plates also very good, one with light browning to part of it; no ownership inscriptions. Nice copy. Pictures available.

London, printed for the AUTHOR, and sold by T. Osborne, in Gray's-Inn, MDCCLV. [1755].. FIRST EDITION 1755. 8vo, approximately 200 x 120 mm, 8 x 4¾ inches, 7 folding engraved plates, first plate pasted on to outer margin as instructed in list of plates, pages: viii, [8], index and Errata, 1-392, bound in modern half calf over marbled boards, gilt lettered label, gilt author and date and gilt decoration between raised bands to spine, new cream endpapers. Pale browning to edges of title page and final page, tips of outer corners have tiny repairs, and 1 small repair to upper margin, repair on blank side of inner margin of 1 folding plate, not affecting image, pale staining to a few outer margins, pale age-browning throughout and some light corner creasing due to page turning, otherwise a very good copy. The late Mr. Thomas Hitt, was formerly gardener to Lord Robert Manners at Bloxholm, in Lincolnshire, and to Lord Robert Bertie, at Chislehurst in Kent. See: Blanche Henrey, British Botanical and… Read More