Ichnographia rustica, or, The nobleman, gentleman, and gardener's recreation : 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 ..

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Author

Switzer, Stephen, 1682?-1745.

Title

Ichnographia rustica, or, The nobleman, gentleman, and gardener's recreation : 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 Stephen Switzer.

Edition

Second edition, with large additions ...

Manufacture

London : Printed for J. and J. Fox [etc.], 1742.

Physical Description

3 volumes, plates (part folded) : illustrations ; 20 cm

1 online resource.

Local Notes

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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.

Reproduction of original from Goldsmiths' Library, University of London.

Goldsmiths'-Kress no. 07890.

Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Thomson Gale, 2005. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited to licensing agreements.

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