Ichnographia rustica, or, The nobleman, gentleman, and gardener's recreation
Subtitle: containing directions for the surveying and distributing of a country-scat into rural and extensive gardens, by the ornamenting and decoration of distant prospects, farms, parks, paddocks, &c. Originally calculated ... for the embellishment of countries in general; as also for an introduction to a general system of agriculture and planting. Illustrated with above fifty copper plates ...
By: by Stephen Switzer
Edition: 2d. ed., with large additions ...
Series: Goldsmiths'-Kress library of economic literature -- no. 7890; Making of the Modern World
Publisher: Printed for J. and J. Fox [etc.
Published: 1742
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Subjects: Gardening; Early works to 1800; Landscape gardening; Agriculture; Gardens; Design
Other titles: Ichnographia rustica.; Nobleman, gentleman, and gardener's recreation.
Notes: Includes indexes to each v.

Vol. 1 first pub. 1715 as "The noblemann, gentleman, and gardener's recreation"; reissued in 1718 with the addition of 2 further volumes as "Ichnographia rustica; or, The present edition is that of 1718 "unaltered except for addition of a preface and an appendix." cf. Dict. of nat. biog.

Appendix has special t.-p. and pagination.

Plates numbered irregularly.

Master microform held by: ResP.

Goldsmiths'-Kress no. 07890.

Hanson 2356n