Eden: or. a Compleat Body of Gardening, Both in Knowledge and Practice; Directing the Gardener in His Work, for Every Distinct Week in the Year, in the Kitchen-Ground, Flower-Garden, and Nursery; and Shewing the Proprietor those Shrubs, Plants, and Flower by Hill, J - 1773

London: Printed for the author, 1773. Second edition, "corrected and enlarged". Folio, pp iv, ii, 716, with an engraved frontispiece, 60 engraved plates + plates 66 - 80 in the appendix (i.e. LACKING five plates in the appendix), some age-toning internally, the odd blemish here and there, the frontispiece with two earlier minor repairs, a partly unpressed copy which has resulted in a horizontal crease to the last sixty pages or so (see illustration) and a slight depression to earlier ones, bound in a recent half calf with very slight signs of use, with marbled endpapers. Plate 31 is bound slightly out of order, and plate 59 has a small ink scribble in the margin and has the plate number corrected in ink. [Blanche Henrey 805, mentioning a portrait as well as an allegorical frontispiece; the portrait is not present in our copy. Sir John Hill was an English composer, actor, author and botanist. He contributed to contemporary periodicals and engaged in literary battles with poets, playwrights and scientists. A controversial figure, John Hill's often provocative and scurrilous writings involved him in many quarrels, both in the field of science and that of literature. Nevertheless his, general, approval of Linnaeus resulted in many of Hill's publications using the Linnean system for the first time.]. Second edition. Full Leather. Good.