The Forest Pruner or Timber Owner's Assistant, Being a Treatise on the Training or Management of British Timber Trees. [bound with] The Rotten Reviewers; or, a Dressing for the Morbid Branches of the Anti-Jacobin and Critical Reviews.

Published by T. Smart, Huddersfield, 1810

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Hardback, no dust-wrapper. Two title bound together in later half-calf. First title: "The Forest Pruner or Timber Owner's Assistant, Being a Treatise on the Training or Management of British Timber Trees; Whether Intended for Life, Ornament, or Shelter: Including an Explanation of the Causes of their General Diseases and Defects, with the Means of Prevention and Remedies Where Practicable:- Also an Examination of the Properties of English Fir Timber; with Remarks on the Defects of the Old, and the Outlines of a New System for the Management of Oak Woods." 277pp. Eight explanatory plates (folding). Second title: "The Rotten Reviewers; or, a Dressing for the Morbid Branches of the Anti-Jacobin and Critical Reviews: Being an Exploration of the Extreme Modesty, Spotless Purity, Mature Judgment, and Strict Impartiality of Certain Writers in these Reviews; as Exemplified in their Remarks on The Forest Pruner." 34pp. Book corners scuffed, boards a little worn and marked. Joint taped at end papers. Contents a little faded but generally very clean. A pleasing copy of two genuinely rare titles. (AL20).

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Title
The Forest Pruner or Timber Owner's Assistant, Being a Treatise on the Training or Management of British Timber Trees. [bound with] The Rotten Reviewers; or, a Dressing for the Morbid Branches of the Anti-Jacobin and Critical Reviews.
Author
Pontey, William
Publisher
T. Smart, Huddersfield
Publication year
1810
Condition
Good+
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Binding
Hard Cover

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www.besleysbooks.com info@besleysbooks.com Proprietor Stephen Besley. Besleys Books has traded in Norfolk and Suffolk since 1986. We now no longer have an open shop, but we issue catalogues and exhibit at book-fairs. We provide valuations for insurance and probate. We continually need to buy books, both important items and more general stock for shop and catalogues. We are members of the PFBA.

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