The planter's guide : or, A practical essay on the best method of giving immediate effect to wood, by the removal of large trees and underwood ; being an attempt to place the art on fixed principles, and to apply it to general purposes, useful and ornamental ; chiefly intended for the climate of Scotland.
Henry Steuart, William Blackwood (Publisher), Thomas Cadell (Publisher), Henry J. B. Clements (Donor), Alexander Douglas-Hamilton Hamilton and Brandon (Dedicatee), Randall Hatfield (Former owner), Joseph Swan (Engraver, Etcher), William Turner (Illustrator), Thordarson Collection
Print Book, English, 1828
William Blackwood, Edinburgh : And T. Cadell, Strand, London, [Edinburgh], 1828
Bindings
[6], xxii, 473, [1] pages, V leaves of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm (8vo)
1008289686
"Directions to the Bookbinder" and "Errata" (f. [pi]3)
Bound in England about 1828 in light brown half calf, marbled papers over boards; covers tooled in blind with roll; spine with headcaps gilt with fillets, with a black morocco lettering piece "Steuart's Planter's Guide."; plain grey endpapers; headbands; marbled edges; and with the addition of a lettering piece with library number "978", and at the foot the arms of Randall Hatfield stamped in gold
Donated by Henry J.B. Clements
Illustrated with five etchings and engravings (printed on laid down India paper), three signed as drawn by William Turner and engraved by J. Swan of Glasgow
Octavo format
Page xiii misnumbered xii
Press figures
Printer's colophon: "Edinburgh: Printed by Ballantyne and Company."
Upper pastedown with the engraved armorial bookplate of Randall Hatfield
With a dedication to Alexander Hamilton, Duke of Hamilton and Duke of Brandon