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A Complete Body of Planting and Gardening. HANBURY (William).

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A Complete Body of Planting and Gardening. Containing the Natural History, Culture, and Management of Deciduous and Evergreen Forest-Trees; with Practical Directions for Raising and Improving Woods, Nurseries, Seminaries, and Plantations; and the Method of Propagating and Improving the Various Kinds of Deciduous and Evergreen Shrubs and Trees Proper for Ornament and Shade. Also, Instructions for Laying-Out and Disposing of Pleasure and Flower-Gardens; Including the Culture of Prize-Flowers, Perennials, Annuals Biennials, &c. Likewise, Plain and Familiar Rules for the Management of a Kitchen-Garden; Comprehending the Newest and Best Methods of Raising all its Different Productions. To Which is Added the Manner of Planting and Cultivating Fruit-Gardens and Orchards. The Whole Forming a Complete History of Timber-Trees, Whether Raised in Forest, Plantations or Nurseries; as well as a General System of the Present Practice of the Flower, Fruit and Kitchen Gardens.

Frontispieces and 20 full page engravings, 7 of which have early hand colouring.

Two volumes. First edition. Large folios. [435 x 280 x 155 mm]. [3]ff, iv, xx, 885, [1] pp, [1]f, 832, [22] pp. Bound in contemporary calf, spines rebacked, divided into seven compartments by raised bands, preserving original red and green goatskin labels, edges of boards tooled with a gilt roll, marbled endleaves, red edges. (Corners worn, covers rubbed).

London: Printed for the Author; and Sold by Edward and Charles Dilly, in the Poultry. 1770-1771.

Contents is clean, minor offsetting to the engraved plates, binding is worn but firm, a very good set indeed.

William Hanbury was a mid-eighteenth-century clergyman and gardener. Following his ordination as a deacon in 1748 he took up the rectory of Church Langton in Leicestershire and set about planting a garden on church land with the aim to sell young plants and saplings to raise money for charity. However, Hanbury had little charm and failed to make friends among the wealthy landowners who viewed with suspicion his attempts to expand the garden into lands that were traditionally set aside as common land after the harvest. Failing to persuade his detractors he instead focused on his nurseries elsewhere in the parish, acquiring seeds and plants from a range of sources. Gradually, his efforts bore fruit, and, by 1758, he was earning enough money to persuade his supporters among the local gentry to establish a fund while Hanbury set about writing books on planting.

This encyclopaedia was the culmination of Hanbury's endeavours. It was one of the first encyclopaedia on forestry and gardening and made full use of the new classification system introduced by Carl Linnaeus. (Royal Collection Trust, RCIN 1057804).

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A Complete Body of Planting and Gardening. Containing the Natural History, Culture, and Management of Deciduous and Evergreen Forest-Trees; with Practical Directions for Raising and Improving Woods, Nurseries, Seminaries, and Plantations; and the Method of Propagating and Improving the Various Kinds of Deciduous and Evergreen Shrubs and Trees Proper for Ornament and Shade. Also, Instructions for Laying-Out and Disposing of Pleasure and Flower-Gardens; Including the Culture of Prize-Flowers, Perennials, Annuals Biennials, &c. Likewise, Plain and Familiar Rules for the Management of a Kitchen-Garden; Comprehending the Newest and Best Methods of Raising all its Different Productions. To Which is Added the Manner of Planting and Cultivating Fruit-Gardens and Orchards. The Whole Forming a Complete History of Timber-Trees, Whether Raised in Forest, Plantations or Nurseries; as well as a General System of the Present Practice of the Flower, Fruit and Kitchen Gardens.

Frontispieces and 20 full page engravings, 7 of which have early hand colouring.

Two volumes. First edition. Large folios. [435 x 280 x 155 mm]. [3]ff, iv, xx, 885, [1] pp, [1]f, 832, [22] pp. Bound in contemporary calf, spines rebacked, divided into seven compartments by raised bands, preserving original red and green goatskin labels, edges of boards tooled with a gilt roll, marbled endleaves, red edges. (Corners worn, covers rubbed).

London: Printed for the Author; and Sold by Edward and Charles Dilly, in the Poultry. 1770-1771.

Contents is clean, minor offsetting to the engraved plates, binding is worn but firm, a very good set indeed.

William Hanbury was a mid-eighteenth-century clergyman and gardener. Following his ordination as a deacon in 1748 he took up the rectory of Church Langton in Leicestershire and set about planting a garden on church land with the aim to sell young plants and saplings to raise money for charity. However, Hanbury had little charm and failed to make friends among the wealthy landowners who viewed with suspicion his attempts to expand the garden into lands that were traditionally set aside as common land after the harvest. Failing to persuade his detractors he instead focused on his nurseries elsewhere in the parish, acquiring seeds and plants from a range of sources. Gradually, his efforts bore fruit, and, by 1758, he was earning enough money to persuade his supporters among the local gentry to establish a fund while Hanbury set about writing books on planting.

This encyclopaedia was the culmination of Hanbury's endeavours. It was one of the first encyclopaedia on forestry and gardening and made full use of the new classification system introduced by Carl Linnaeus. (Royal Collection Trust, RCIN 1057804).

Stock no. ebc8898

A Complete Body of Planting and Gardening. Containing the Natural History, Culture, and Management of Deciduous and Evergreen Forest-Trees; with Practical Directions for Raising and Improving Woods, Nurseries, Seminaries, and Plantations; and the Method of Propagating and Improving the Various Kinds of Deciduous and Evergreen Shrubs and Trees Proper for Ornament and Shade. Also, Instructions for Laying-Out and Disposing of Pleasure and Flower-Gardens; Including the Culture of Prize-Flowers, Perennials, Annuals Biennials, &c. Likewise, Plain and Familiar Rules for the Management of a Kitchen-Garden; Comprehending the Newest and Best Methods of Raising all its Different Productions. To Which is Added the Manner of Planting and Cultivating Fruit-Gardens and Orchards. The Whole Forming a Complete History of Timber-Trees, Whether Raised in Forest, Plantations or Nurseries; as well as a General System of the Present Practice of the Flower, Fruit and Kitchen Gardens.

Frontispieces and 20 full page engravings, 7 of which have early hand colouring.

Two volumes. First edition. Large folios. [435 x 280 x 155 mm]. [3]ff, iv, xx, 885, [1] pp, [1]f, 832, [22] pp. Bound in contemporary calf, spines rebacked, divided into seven compartments by raised bands, preserving original red and green goatskin labels, edges of boards tooled with a gilt roll, marbled endleaves, red edges. (Corners worn, covers rubbed).

London: Printed for the Author; and Sold by Edward and Charles Dilly, in the Poultry. 1770-1771.

Contents is clean, minor offsetting to the engraved plates, binding is worn but firm, a very good set indeed.

William Hanbury was a mid-eighteenth-century clergyman and gardener. Following his ordination as a deacon in 1748 he took up the rectory of Church Langton in Leicestershire and set about planting a garden on church land with the aim to sell young plants and saplings to raise money for charity. However, Hanbury had little charm and failed to make friends among the wealthy landowners who viewed with suspicion his attempts to expand the garden into lands that were traditionally set aside as common land after the harvest. Failing to persuade his detractors he instead focused on his nurseries elsewhere in the parish, acquiring seeds and plants from a range of sources. Gradually, his efforts bore fruit, and, by 1758, he was earning enough money to persuade his supporters among the local gentry to establish a fund while Hanbury set about writing books on planting.

This encyclopaedia was the culmination of Hanbury's endeavours. It was one of the first encyclopaedia on forestry and gardening and made full use of the new classification system introduced by Carl Linnaeus. (Royal Collection Trust, RCIN 1057804).

Stock no. ebc8898