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PARADISE IN THE GARDEN

HILL, John. EDEN: OR, A COMPLEAT BODY OF GARDENING. Containing plain and familiar directions for raising the several useful products of a garden, fruits, roots, and herbage; from the practice of the most successful gardeners, and the result of long experience... Compiled and digested from the papers of the late celebrated Mr. Hale, by the authors of the Compleat Body of Husbandry. London: Printed for T. Osborne, T. Trye, S. Crowder, H. Woodgate, 1757. First edition. Folio. 41 cm. [ii],[i-]iv,[i-]ii,[1]- 598,597-714 pp. Includes the dedication leaf to the earl of Bute. Text printed in double columns. Allegorical engraved frontispiece, The Genius of Botany, by Charles Grignion after Samuel Wale. 60 engraved plates by Hill, C. A. Edwards & Darly, Boyce, J. C. Philips, and Ed. Alton after Hill, C. A. Edwards and Jan van Huysum. One plate, no. 14, has some early skillful hand-coloring. Two plates, nos. 2 & 5, each have a small ink notation at bottom margin. One plate, no. 50, has a short closed-tear at the inside bottom margin; and another plate, no. 26, has a quarter-size stain at the bottom. Title-page has a worn patch on verso, probably from bookplate removal. A few text pages have occasional contemporary ink notations. It is a clean copy overall, with good margins. Handsomely bound in modern quarter calf and marbled boards, with a black morocco spine label. $9,750.00 #79678