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Author: Switzer, Stephen:

Title: A compendious method for the raising of the Italian brocoli, Spanish cardoon, celeriac, fenochi, and other foreign kitchen vegetables; as also an account of the La Lucerne, St. Foyne, Clover, and other grass seeds. With the method of burning clay, for the improving of land.

Publication: London: printed for Thomas Astley, at the Rose in St Paul's Church-Yard, [1728].

Description: Second edition. 8vo., pp. [ii], xvi, 53, [i]. Woodcut headpieces and initials. Head of title-page trimmed very close, losing top half of 'A Compendious', pp.xiii-xvi a little short at fore-edge not affecting text, partially untrimmed. Occasional light smudgy marks, some faint dampstaining to margins. A few pencil marks to title-page, including an incorrect date. 20th-century quarter calf, gilt title to spine, marbled boards, endpapers renewed, Spine sunned and a little rubbed, headcap very slightly frayed, very good.

Rare in UK institutions, with LibraryHub finding only a single copy of this second edition, at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. The undated and and even rarer first edition appears in two forms, the second adding an Appendix (gathering G) and a new title-page. Switzer explains: 'As I am daily, and even hourly, receiving fresh Accounts of the Propagating and Improving the valuable La Lucerne, and other Grass-Seeds, I think it proper to add this half Sheet by Way of Appendix, before this pamphlet has spread itself too far; and those Gentlemen who may have bought it before this Appendix comes out, may, by sending to the Places where it is publish'd, have it chang'd: the Whole to cost One Shilling.' In this second edition the earlier Appendix has been replaced by a new one, signed F and dated May 18th 1728. Switzer: 'A Second Edition of this small Treatise being required, I thought it not improper to take a Review of the former, so that I might regulate whatsoever upon due Observation I found amiss, and might add such other Observations as in this Interval I have met with.'

Bibliography: ESTC N48413.

Reference Number: [55071]

Price: £300

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	Author: Switzer, Stephen: Title: A compendious method for the raising of the Italian brocoli, Spanish cardoon, celeriac, fenochi, and other foreign kitchen vegetables; as also an account of the La Lucerne, St. Foyne, Clover, and other grass seeds. With the method of burning clay, for the improving of land. Publication: London: printed for Thomas Astley, at the Rose in St Paul's Church-Yard, [1728]. Description: Second edition. 8vo., pp. [ii], xvi, 53, [i]. Woodcut headpieces and initials. Head of title-page trimmed very close, losing top half of 'A Compendious', pp.xiii-xvi a little short at fore-edge not affecting text, partially untrimmed. Occasional light smudgy marks, some faint dampstaining to margins. A few pencil marks to title-page, including an incorrect date. 20th-century quarter calf, gilt title to spine, marbled boards, endpapers renewed, Spine sunned and a little rubbed, headcap very slightly frayed, very good. Rare in UK institutions, with LibraryHub finding only a single copy of this second edition, at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. The undated and and even rarer first edition appears in two forms, the second adding an Appendix (gathering G) and a new title-page. Switzer explains: 'As I am daily, and even hourly, receiving fresh Accounts of the Propagating and Improving the valuable La Lucerne, and other Grass-Seeds, I think it proper to add this half Sheet by Way of Appendix, before this pamphlet has spread itself too far; and those Gentlemen who may have bought it before this Appendix comes out, may, by sending to the Places where it is publish'd, have it chang'd: the Whole to cost One Shilling.' In this second edition the earlier Appendix has been replaced by a new one, signed F and dated May 18th 1728. Switzer: 'A Second Edition of this small Treatise being required, I thought it not improper to take a Review of the former, so that I might regulate whatsoever upon due Observation I found amiss, and might add such other Observations as in this Interval I have met with.' Bibliography: ESTC N48413. Reference Number: [55071] Price: £300 enquire << Back
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