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HALE, THOMAS [ATTRIB. TO JOHN HILL] | EDEN: OR, A COMPLEAT BODY OF GARDENING. CONTAINING PLAIN AND FAMILIAR DIRECTIONS FOR RAISING THE SEVERAL USEFUL PRODUCTS OF A GARDEN, LONDON, 1757
HALE, THOMAS [ATTRIB. TO JOHN HILL]EDEN: OR, A COMPLEAT BODY OF GARDENING. CONTAINING PLAIN AND FAMILIAR DIRECTIONS FOR RAISING THE SEVERAL USEFUL PRODUCTS OF A GARDEN, LONDON, 1757Engraved allegorical frontispiece, 60 handcolored engraved botanical plates after and by Hill, Boyce, and others; some light browning, foxing, and offsetting. 20th-century half brown morocco over marbled; joints cracked, extremities rubbed, some staining. First edition, handcolored issue. Little is known about Thomas Hale except that his papers are allegedly the source of the present work and its companion volume, The Compleat Body of Husbandry (1756). Authorship is often attributed to John Hill, whose name alone appears at the close of the dedication to the Earl of Bute in this edition and on the title-page of the enlarged second edition of 1773. The book includes a disquisition on the curative virtues of Atropa belladonna, one of Britain’s most toxic native plants (page 477). The index concludes with a humbling correction: "The Publick are to be informed, that since our Publication of the virtues ascribed to Deadly Nightshade, many Trials have been made but few have succeeded: it has no specifick Virtue against Cancers, and its Use may be harmful." Mario Buatta has signed and dated the front free endpaper New York, 1982.References: Cleveland Collections 442; Dunthorne 129; Great Flower Books, p. 100; Henrey 776; Hunt 559; Nissen 880; An Oak Spring Flora 53 (second edition); Stafleu & Cowan TL2 2770Folio (413 x 248 mm)
