LOUDON ((John Claudius). Encyclopaedia of Cottage, Farm, and Villa Architecture and Furniture; Comprising The Theory and Practice of Horticulture, Floriculture, Arboriculture, and Lanscape-Gardening, Including All the Latest Improvements; A General History of Gardening in All Countries; and a Statistical View of its present state.1833

London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green and Longman, First edition, thick 8vo, xx, 1138pp., woodcut illustrs., marbled endpapers, marbled edges, contemporary green morocco, marbled boards, light stain to spine and upper cover otherwise a nice copy of the scarce first edition. Provenance: Engraved armorial bookplate of John Wingfield Larking (1801-1891); small oval stamp of the Lawes Agriculture Library, Rothamsted Research Institute.