A Profitable Planter with A Profitable Pruner

Volume one - The Profitable Planter. A Treatise on the Theory and Practice of Planting Forest Trees in Every Description of Soil and Situation. More Particularly on Elevated Sites, Barren Heaths, Rocky Soils etc. Including Directions for the Planting and Management of Permanent Screens with Useful Hints on Shelter and Ornament.

Volume two - The Forest Pruner; or Timber Owner’s Assistant: A Treatise on the Training or Management of British Timber Trees Whether Intended for Use, Ornament or Shelter: Including an Explanation of the Causes of their General Diseases and Defects with the Means of Prevention and Remedies. Also an Examination of the Properties of English Fir Timber with Remarks on the Old and Outlines of a New System for the Management of Oak Woods.

Two volumes, octavo (214mm x 135mm), Volume 1 - 222pp, 4pp adverts at rear, wood engraving frontis piece. Volume 2 - 277pp, 4pp adverts at rear, wood engraved frontis piece (plate 1) and 7 further plates, 2 wood engravings and 5 aquatints, 3 of which are folding.

Very good copy in contemporary half calf with marbled boards. Gilt decoration to the spines and gilt marking to the top, fore and bottom edges of the spines and corners. Some browning of pages in volume 2.

A pretty pair of these works.