Hints on the formation of gardens and pleasure grounds : With designs in various styles of rural embellishment: comprising plans for laying out flower, fruit, and kitchen gardens, and the arrangement of glass houses, hot wals, and stoves

John Claudius Loudon

John Harding, London, 1812

[The first book to produce a range of designs suitable for the 'small' garden of less than one acre.] 4to, 29 cm.  [xii], 70, [2pp. adverts.], 20 double-page engraved plates mounted on guards. 3/4 bound in modern leather over marbled boards. Fine binding. Marbled end pages. Minor bottom marginal stain.