A philosophical treatise of husbandry and gardening: . being a new method of cultivating and increasing all sorts of trees, shrubs, and flowers. ...
Georg Andreas Agricola (1672 - 1738)
Category
Books
Date
1721
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Erddig, Wrexham
NT 3008788
Summary
Bibliographic description
[24],300,[4]p.,[23]p. of plates (some folded) . 4to.. Imperfect: wanting plate 1. Plate 18 misbound opposite p. 132. Old NT shelfmark: A.4? [rubbed out]. eighteenth-century price on flyleaf: 1:0:0-. Pp. 107, 109, 138, 150, 152, 157, 159-60, 176, 179-80, 182, 184, 206-7, 209, 221, 225, 232, 239, 242-3, 265-6, 278, 281, 283 have been turned over in the past. Provenance: Bookplate: Erthig (anonymous armorial). Binding: Sprinkled calf, gilt double fillet and small blind roll tooling on covers, remains of blind tooling on board edges, red and brown sprinkled edges (spine label faded).
Provenance
Given by Philip Yorke III (1905-1978) along with the estate, house and contents to the National Trust in 1973.
Makers and roles
Georg Andreas Agricola (1672 - 1738) Richard Bradley (1688-1732)