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THOMAS HALE (FL. C.1750) AND SIR JOHN HILL (1716/17-1775)
Eden: or, a Compleat Body of Gardening. London: T. Osborne, T. Trye [and others], [1756]-1757. 2° (420 x 260mm). Engraved frontispiece and 60 engraved plates by Grignion, Philips, Cole and others after Hill, Wale, Edward and Van Huysum. (Marginal waterstaining to first 3 leaves and top right corners of some plates occasionally touching plates, occasional browning and spotting, marginal soiling to a few leaves.) Contemporary calf, red edges (some rubbing and touches of restoration). Provenance: unidentified arms.
FIRST EDITION of a fine practical work edited by 'Sir' John Hill and intended as a companion to the Compleat Body of Husbandry (London, 1756). It was designed along very unusual lines for the period: each weekly part includes information on what should be done in the garden during the following week together with descriptions of the plants that should be at their peak at that time. In the introduction the author's intentions are made plain: 'We shall treat Gardens from their Origin, Design, and first Construction, to the raising them to Perfection, and keeping them in that condition; and we shall consider, in our Course, their Products, whether of Use, Curiosity, or Beauty. These we shall describe in their several Seasons, suiting our Publications to the Time of their Appearance'. Hill published another edition under his own name in 1773. Nissen BBI 880; Hunt 559.
Eden: or, a Compleat Body of Gardening. London: T. Osborne, T. Trye [and others], [1756]-1757. 2° (420 x 260mm). Engraved frontispiece and 60 engraved plates by Grignion, Philips, Cole and others after Hill, Wale, Edward and Van Huysum. (Marginal waterstaining to first 3 leaves and top right corners of some plates occasionally touching plates, occasional browning and spotting, marginal soiling to a few leaves.) Contemporary calf, red edges (some rubbing and touches of restoration). Provenance: unidentified arms.
FIRST EDITION of a fine practical work edited by 'Sir' John Hill and intended as a companion to the Compleat Body of Husbandry (London, 1756). It was designed along very unusual lines for the period: each weekly part includes information on what should be done in the garden during the following week together with descriptions of the plants that should be at their peak at that time. In the introduction the author's intentions are made plain: 'We shall treat Gardens from their Origin, Design, and first Construction, to the raising them to Perfection, and keeping them in that condition; and we shall consider, in our Course, their Products, whether of Use, Curiosity, or Beauty. These we shall describe in their several Seasons, suiting our Publications to the Time of their Appearance'. Hill published another edition under his own name in 1773. Nissen BBI 880; Hunt 559.