An essay upon gardening
Subtitle: containing a catalogue of exotic plants for the stoves and green-houses of the British gardens, the best method of planting the hot-house vine : with directions for obtaining and preparing proper earths and compositions, to preserve tender exotics, observations on the history of gardening, and a contrast of the ancient with the modern taste
By: by Richard Steele ...
Contributors: Peacock, G. (George), fl. 1785-1811; White, Benjamin, ca. 1724-1794; Record, John, fl. 1769-1780; Atkinson, Thomas, 1729?-1798
Publisher: Printed for the author, by G. Peacock and sold by B. White and Sons ... London ... [and four others]
Published: 1793
Place of publication: York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 159
Subjects: Cultivated Plants; Gardening; Early works to 1800; Floriculture; Greenhouses
Notes: Errata: p. [1] at end.

Final page blank.

Leaf containing "Additional subscribers" inserted after p. xx; each plate preceded by 1 leaf of explanations.

Plates engraved by John Record after Thomas Atkinson.

Bound in paper-covered boards; ink title on spine; ink signature of M. Wyvill on front pastedown.