ESSAY ON MODERN GARDENING

Walpole (Horace)
ESSAY ON MODERN GARDENING 

94 pp, parallel text in English and French, title with engraved vignette, woodcut initials and head- and tail-pieces
Rebound in full red leather, gold embossing and decoration to spine with 5 raised bands.Gold ruled lined edging to front and back covers. Corners slightly rubbed. Marbelled endpapers. Gilt edges. Show through due to age and thinness of paper.Foxing to title page. A very good copy. 

Bookplate of previous owner on FEP. 

"This essay was first printed at Mr. Walpole's private press at Strawberry hill in 1771, when it appeared at the end of the fourth volume of 'Anecdotes of painting in England' under the title: 'The modern taste in gardening'." 

Horatio Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford (24 September 1717 – 2 March 1797), better known as Horace Walpole, was an English Whig politician, writer, historian and antiquarian.
He is the son of the first British prime minister , Sir Robert Walpole. 

He built his home Strawberry Hill in London and birthed his Strawberry Hill Press there in 1757, where many of his own works and other first editions were printed.