[Famous garden book] Magazijn van tuin-sieraaden

Of verzameling van modellen van aanleg en sieraad, voor groote en kleine lust-hoven, voornamelijk van dezulke die, met weinig kosten, te maaken zijn. Getrokken uit de voornaamste buitenlandsche werken, naar de gelegenheid en gronden van dit koningrijk gewijzigd, en met veele nieuwe platte gronden en sieraaden vermeerderd, door G. van Laar. Amsterdam, J. de Ruyter, n.d. (1819), (2),IV,120,(VIII index) p., with 190 engraved plates, contemporary half leather, gilt back with morocco title shield, large 4to.

As with a copy digitised by Google, this copy lacks text leaf D4 but the text reads well (D4 must have been a blank leaf). Plate 13 with small repaired tear; several plates and text leaves waterstained in lower corner, bookblock at the end waterstained in top corner (back board affected too); binding else with several small defects. All in all an acceptable, uncut copy. Famous garden book, which naturally was also published in an even rarer, coloured edition. Our copy is from the undated second edition, with the words 'deezer Republiek' on the title page of the first edition [published by Johannes Allart and dated 1802] have been replaced by the words 'van dit koningrijk'. In 1831 another new edition appeared at Zaltbommel.