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Creator:
Switzer, Stephen, 1682?-1745
Title(s):
Ichnographia rustica, or, The nobleman, gentleman, and gardener's recreation : containing directions for the surveying and distributing of a country-seat into rural and extensive gardens, by the ornamenting and decoration of distant prospects, farms, parks, paddocks, &c. : originaly calculated ... for the embellishment of countries in general; as als for an introduction to a general system of agriculture and planting / by Stephen Switzer.
Additional Title(s):

Ichnographia rustica.

Nobleman, gentleman, and gardener's recreation.
Edition:
Second edition / with large additions.
Published/Created:
London : Printed for J. and J. Fox [etc.], 1742.
Physical Description:
3 v. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
SB97 S967 1742
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Archer, 327.3
English short title catalogue, T61261
Henrey, B. British botanical and horticultural literature before 1800, 1413
BAC: British Art Center copy imperfect; v. 3 wanting. Appendix with a separate t.p. and pagination is at the end of v.2.
Subject Terms:
Agriculture -- Early works to 1800.
Agriculture -- Great Britain -- Early works to 1800.
Engraving -- Specimens -- 1742
Fox, J. and J. -- Publisher
Gardening -- Early works to 1800.
Gardening -- Great Britain -- Early works to 1800.
Gardens -- Design -- Early works to 1800.
Gardens -- Great Britain -- Early works to 1800.
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