OBSERVATIONS ON MODERN GARDENING, Illustrated by DESCRIPTIONS. By Thomas Whatley. First edition. Hardback. 8 1/4 by 5 inches. 257 pp. Leather covers, red spine label. Covers quite scuffed, edgeworn. Both covers detached. Spine is darkened, label readable in good imagination. Small piece of scotch tape on cover. FEP detached. Previous owner's name and later owner's emboosed stamp on title page. Light-to-moderate spotting present through text. REPs detached. Text is complete, binding is tight. Contents include: Of Ground, A Hill at Ilam, Of Wood, A Grove at Claremont, A Grove at Ether Place, Of Water, Blenheim, Wotton, Of Rocks, Middleton dale, Matlock Bath, New Weir on the Wye, Dove dale, Of Buildings, Temple of Pan at the south lodge on Enfield Chace, Of Art, Caversham, Of Picturesque Beauty, Of Character, Of the Generalk Subject, Of a Farm, Leasowes, Woburn farm, Of a Park, Painshill, Hagley, Of a Garden, Stowe, Of a Riding, Persfield. This important book greatly influenced Thomas Jefferson. #661