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Batty. A sure method of improving estates
LANGLEY
Batty. A sure method of improving estates

MBA004: Lot 75. LANGLEY, Batty.

A sure method of improving estates,

£1200 - £1800

A sure method of improving estates, 85586
by plantations of oak, elm, ash, beech, and other timber-trees, coppice woods. &c. Wherein is demonstrated, the necessity and advantages thereof; their manner of raising, cultivating, felling, &c. in all kinds of soils, whereby estates may be greatly improved. Offered to the consideration of the nobility of the gentry of Great-Britain.
Printed for Francis Clay and Daniel Browne, London. 1728.

Batty Langley (1696-1751), an architect, gardener and surveyor, was the author of many architectural works, however he also wrote three important gardening books, all published when he was living at Twickenham. Here, “Langley observes that, by making plantations of timber trees, landlords can vastly improve their estates ‘to the great advantage of themselves and their posterity after them’. The treatise contains much practical and informative material, and provides some interesting accounts showing the expenses connected with the making of plantations, including the cost of labourer’s wages, together with details recording the profits to be contained” (Henrey).

Description

First edition. 8vo., [10], xxii [i.e.xx], 274pp., one folding engraved plate, contemporary sprinkled calf gilt, morocco lettering piece, a fine copy.

Provenance

Bibliography

Henrey 929; Goldsmiths’ 6587; Hanson 3823.