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Lot 70
Sale 1022 - Fine Printed Books & Manuscripts, Including Americana
May 4, 2022
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STEELE, Richard (bap. 1672-1729). An Essay Upon Gardening, containing a Catalogue of Exotic Plants for the Stoves and Green-houses of the British Gardens. York: for the Author by G. Peacock, 1793.
4to (259 x 208mm). Half-title, list of subscribers, with additional leaf of subscribers and author's apology for errors; 3 folding engraved plates, each with letterpress explanatory leaf, errata leaf at end of first part. (Some foxing to plates, occasional marginal spotting or toning, mostly to explanatory leaves opposite plates.) 19th-century half calf with earlier spine laid down. Provenance: John Ireland Blackburne, Esq. (etched bookplate); D. Shirley (signature on pastedown).
FIRST EDITION. Henrey 1384; ESTC T82581.
Selections from Antiquariat Botanicum, Dr. Eugene Vigil