Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
McIntosh, Charles, 1794-1864
Title:
The practical gardener, and modern horticulturist : containing the latest and most approved methods for the management of the kitchen, fruit, and flower-garden, the green-house, hot-house, &c., &c., for every month in the year : each department being distinctly and separately arranged : illustrated by numerous designs of the most eligible plans for the formation of kitchen and pleasure-gardens, the erection of hot-houses, hot-beds, green-houses, conservatories, walls, fences, &c., &c. including the new method of heating forcing-houses with hot water only : forming a complete system of modern practice, in the various branches of horticultural science : embellished with highly-finished engravings of some of the most choice and valuable fruits and flowers now cultivated in this country / by Charles McIntosh, C.M.C.H.S. ...
Published / Created:
London : Printed for Thomas Kelly, No. 17, Paternoster Row, 1828.

London : Printed by J. Rider, Little Britain
Physical Description:
2 volumes (viii, 1122 pages, [28] leaves of plates) : illustrations ; 23 cm
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
SB91 .M35 1828
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Engravings by Edmund Turrell; after J. Douglas, Frederick W. Smith, J.T. Hart, and E.D. Smith

Paged continuously.

Printer's statement from title page verso.

BAC: British Art Center copy bound in contemporary green half calf and marbled boards. Engraved title page bound as title page to volume 2. Armorial bookplate: J.J. Jackson-Barstow.
Subject Terms:
Gardening. | Horticulture. | Greenhouse gardening. | Greenhouses -- Designs and plans. | Jackson-Barstow, J.J. -- Bookplate.
Form/Genre:
Engravings -- 1829-1829. | Engravings -- Hand-colored -- 1828-1829. | Armorial bookplates (Provenance)
Contributors:
Kelly, Thomas (Publisher), publisher. | Rider, John, printer. | Douglas, J., illustrator. | Smith, Frederick W. (Frederick William), 1797–1835, illustrator. | Hart, J. T., illustrator. | Smith, E. D. (Edward Dalton), 1800–1847/48, illustrator.