4to (283 x 224 mm). Without engraved frontispiece and half-title as usual (Some light toning.) Original boards, printed lettering-piece, uncut (rebacked, some wear to edges, some staining). Provenance: Robert Mascall (armorial bookplate). 

 

FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY BOUTCHER. Boutcher guides the reader through “plain directions for removing most of the valuable kinds of forest-trees,” “transplanting hedges of sundry kinds,” as well as the “disposition, planting, and culture of hedges” to promote more robust growth (title-page). Henrey declared that the present work is the best 18th-century treatise on arboriculture, which has practical guidance that aid forestry today. Cleveland Collections, 521; Henrey 3, 476.