Observations on Modern Gardening: and Laying Out Pleasure-grounds, Parks, Farms, Ridings, &c. New ed.

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London: Printed for West and Hughes

There are two bookplates pasted in Thomas Whately’s classic book on gardens: James Bindley (1739-1818) and Sir Lambton Loraine (1784-1852). Loraine’s bookplate is the newer one and has been pasted on the marbled endpapers. If Bindley commissioned the red morocco binding on this work, he, a self-avowed bibliomaniac, was perhaps too absorbed to notice the detracting mark (the spine ridge in the goatskin) running down the centre. Blind tooling around the edges and flower corner pieces finish off this plain but striking binding.