Nobleman, gentleman, and gardener's recreation
Stephen Switzer (1682-1745)
Category
Books
Date
1718
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Dyrham, Gloucestershire
NT 3247624
Summary
Bibliographic description
3v.,plates (some folding). 8vo. Acquired by the National Trust with other former Dyrham books in April 2022. Imperfect, wanting vols. 1 and 2. Provenance: Inscription upside down on rear endpaper "Edward Hopkins 1784". Binding: eighteenth-century brown leather over boards; mottled central panel; sewn on five bands; blind tooling to front and rear.
Makers and roles
Stephen Switzer (1682-1745)