Illustrations from A treatise on forming, improving, and managing country residences : and on the choice of situations appropriate to every class of purchasers, in all which the object in view is to unite in a better manner than has hitherto been done, a taste founded in nature with economy and utility, in constructing or improving mansions, and other rural buildings, so as to combine architectural fitness with picturesque effect, and in forming gardens, orchards, farms, parks, pleasure grounds, shrubberies, all kinds of useful or decorative plantations, and every object of convenience or beauty peculiar to country seats, according to the extent, character, or style of situations, and the rank, fortune, and expenditure of proprietors, from the cottage to the palace : with an appendix, containing an enquiry into the utility and merits of Mr. Repton's mode of shewing effects by slides and sketches, and strictures on his opinions and practice in landscape gardening / by John Loudon (London : Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, by C. Whittingham, 1806).
Etching from Richard S. Chattock, The Black Country: sixteen etchings illustrative of scenes in the coal and iron district of South Staffordshire : With descriptive letterpress to each plate, etc. (London ; Birmingham, [1878]).
Map from Great Western Railway, Through the window. No.1, Paddington to Penzance (Cornish Riviera route) : 300 miles of English country as seen from the G.W.R. trains (1924 [London] : Great Western Railway).
William and John Perfect (Firm), A brief catalogue of the size and price of nursery forest-trees, fruit-trees, and flowering shrubs, sold by William and John Perfect, nurserymen and seedsmen, in Pontefract, 1774 ([York : printed by C. Etherington, 1774]). ULL copy is in a volume of broadsides bound in modern half leather; each item mounted on hand-made paper.
The whole art of husbandry, or, The way of managing and improving of land : being a full collection of what hath been writ, either by ancient or modern authors ... ; as also an account of the particular sorts of husbandry used in several counties ... ; to which is added the country-man's kalendar / by J. Mortimer (Dublin : Printed by and for George Grierson, 1721). The fifth edition, with new additions.
The lady's recreation, or, The third and last part of the art of gardening improv'd / by Charles Evelyn ... : to which are added some curious observations concerning variegated greens by the Reverend Mr. Laurence (London : Printed for J. Roberts, 1717).
The fruit-garden kalendar, or, A summary of the art of managing the fruit-garden : teaching in order of time what is to be done therein every month in the year : containing several new and plain directions more particularly relating to the vine : to which is added an appendix of the usefulness of the barometer, with some short directions how to make a right judgment of the weather / by John Laurence (London : Printed for Bernard Lintot, 1718).
Diagram from The manner of raising, ordering, and improving forest and fruit-trees : also how to plant, make and keep woods, walks, avenues, lawns, hedges, &c. with several figures in copper-plates, proper for the same : also rules and tables shewing how the ingenious planter may measure superficial figures, with rules how to divide woods or land / by Moses Cook ; whereunto is now added that ingenious treatise of Mr. Gabriel Plattes, viz. A discovery of subterranean treasure (London : Printed for Peter Parker, 1679).
Seaweed sample from Volume entitled ‘British Seaweeds’ containing forty-eight named examples of seaweeds pasted into pages, including note on the inside cover:: 'Collection of Seaweeds sold in aid of the Fund for the repair of Rock Church £1.1.0' (probably compiled by Mrs Gray of the British Museum: see 11) (48pp) (n.d.). To see the full digitised album click on the catalogue link.
1804-1865. Seaweed samples from Volume containing seventy-one named examples of seaweeds pasted into pages, including note on the inside cover:: 'Presented by Mrs Gray (wife of Dr JE Gray) of the Brit[ish] Mus[eum]' (42pp) (1804 – 1865). To see the full digitised album click on the catalogue link.
