A treatise on forest-trees: : containing not only the best methods of their culture hitherto practised, but a variety of new and useful discoveries, the result of many repeated experiments: as also, plain directions for removing most of the valuable kinds of forest-trees, to the height of thirty feet and upwards, with certain success; and, on the same principles, (with as certain success) for transplanting hedges of sundry kinds, which will at once resist cattle: to which are added, directions for the disposition, planting, and culture of hedges, by observing which, they will be handsomer and stronger fences in five years, than they now usually are in ten. /
Boutcher, William.
Scott, James,-approximately 1786,binder.StEdNL: Bdg.m.61, Bdg.m.94, Bdg.m.105, Bdg.m.109, Bdg.m.167 & Bdg.m.172
Watson, Charles,of Saughton,former owner.StEdNL: Bdg.m.167
Montgomery, James,Sir,1721-1803,former owner.StEdNL: Bdg.m.172
Edinburgh: : Printed by R. Fleming, and sold by the author, by J. Murray, no. 32. Fleet-Street, London, and the other booksellers in Great Britain.,
M. D C C. L X X V. [1775]
William Boutcher was a Scottish nurseryman, who had premises at Comely Bank, Edinburgh (his father, William Boutcher, senior, had also been a nurseryman and leading garden designer). "A treatise on forest trees" was his first printed work, dedicated to the Duke of Buccleuch, and was financed by subscription. Boutcher notes in his preface, concerning the subscribers, "the quality, if not the number of those, does me honour, as I can boast of many of the greatest and most respectable names in the kingdom". These names included most of the Scottish land-owning aristocracy.
Added engraved title-page.
Half-title = leaf f3, pp.[xlv-xlvi].
With list of subscribers (pp.xxvii-xliii)
ESTC
Henrey, B.  Brit. botanical lit.,
Higgs
Goldsmiths'
Armorial bookplate of "Charles Watson of Saughton Esqr. on the front pastedown. Manuscript signature of "Watson" at the head of the title page.
Early 19th-century heraldic bookplate of Sir James Montgomery Bart. of Stanhope (1721-1803), lord chief baron of the Scottish exchequer who became a baronet in 1801, two years before his death. Montgomery took a keen interest in the science of agriculture and subscribed for two copies of the book.
Probably James Scott of Edinburgh bindings (not recorded in Loudon) featuring a gilt roll on the periphery of the top and bottom boards which resembles roll 5 on page 299 of J.H. Loudon's 'James Scott and William Scott, bookbinders' (London: Scolar Press [for] the National Library of Scotland, 1980). Gilt-tooled spine featuring an architectural column resembling column 5 on page 285 of Loudon and a gilt spine title on red morocco.
James Scott of Edinburgh binding (not recorded in Loudon) featuring a gilt band on the periphery of the top and bottom boards. Gilt-tooled spine featuring a swan emblem resembling zoomorphic tool 7 on page 315 of J.H. Loudon's 'James Scott and William Scott, bookbinders' (London: Scolar Press [for] the National Library of Scotland, 1980) and a gilt spine title on red morocco.
James Scott of Edinburgh binding (not recorded in Loudon) featuring a gilt roll on the periphery of the top and bottom boards which resembles roll 14 on page 299 of J.H. Loudon's 'James Scott and William Scott, bookbinders' (London: Scolar Press [for] the National Library of Scotland, 1980). Gilt-tooled spine featuring floral emblems with gilt spine title on green morocco.
James Scott of Edinburgh binding (not recorded in Loudon) featuring a gilt roll on the periphery of the top and bottom boards which resembles roll 24 on page 300 of J.H. Loudon's 'James Scott and William Scott, bookbinders' (London: Scolar Press [for] the National Library of Scotland, 1980). Gilt-tooled spine featuring floral emblems with gilt spine title on red morocco.
James Scott of Edinburgh binding (not recorded in Loudon) featuring boards with a roll-pattern used by Scott from 1775 onwards (Loudon Ro16 (1775)) and the botanical ornaments on the spine recall a tool used by Scott used in other bindings (Loudon Bo.46a).
Forest and forestry
Arboriculture
Hedges
Scotland Edinburgh.
Also available on microfilm. New Haven, CT : Research Publications, Inc., 1976. Goldsmiths'-Kress Library of Economic Literature ; reel 1072, no. 11234.