Author: Langley, Batty.
Title: NEW PRINCIPLES OF GARDENING. Or, The laying out and planting parterres, groves, wildernesses, labyrinths, avenues, parks, &c. after a more grand and rural manner, than has been done before; With Experimental Directions For raising the several Kinds of Fruit-Trees, Forest-Trees, Ever-Greens and Flowering-Shrubs with which Gardens are adorn'd. To which is added, The various Names, Descriptions, Temperatures Medicinal Virtues, Uses and Cultivations of several Roots, Pulse, Herbs, &c. of the Kitchen and Physick Gardens, that are absolutely necessary for the Service of Families in general. Illustrated with great Variety of Grand Designs, curiously Engraven on twenty eight Folio Plates, by the best Hands. By Batty Langley, of Twickenham.
Description: London : printed for A. Bettesworth and J. Batley in Pater-Noster Row; J. Pemberton in Fleestreet; T. Bowles in St. Paul's Church-Yard; J. Clarke, under the Royal Exchange; and J. Bowles at Mercer's Hall in Cheapside, 1728 [1727]. 1st Ed. 4to. [2],xvi,[viii],207,[1],191,[1]p. Historiated/decorative initial letter and decorative devices, 28 folding plates (1 repaired to verso). Ex.-libris June V. Roberts, light age toning, modern e.ps., contemporary blind tooled panelled calf, minor loss to edges in part, some repairs to upper leading corner and tail of lower board, some discolouring, rebacked in C20th calf darkened and with original gilt lettered label to spine. ¶ ESTC T39919; Henrey 927; Batty Langley (bap. 1696, d. 1751), writer on architecture. ‘... but his most important work on the subject was New Principles of Gardening (1728). This contained a variety of garden plans in what he called the 'arti-natural' style, replete with twisted serpentine paths or meanders that prefigure Hogarth's 'line of beauty' and signalled the emergence of the rococo style in England ... His brother Thomas Langley (1702–1751?), engraver, ... was evidently trained as a gardener and contributed a few pedestrian plans for kitchen gardens to his brother's New Principles of Gardening (1728). He was also responsible for drawing the plates for this book, which include, apart from Batty's designs, copies of ruinscapes by Joachim von Sandrart from the brothers' remarkably large and wide-ranging collection of prints and books ...’

Keywords: NATURAL HISTORY; GARDENING


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