[WHITMILL, Benjamin.] Kalendarium Universale: or, the Gardiner’s Universal Calendar. Containing an Account of the Several Monthly Operations in the Kitchen-Garden, Flower-Garden, and Parterre throughout the Year. London: for James Lacy, 1726. First edition, 12mo (144 x 80mm.) Title, 4pp. of contemporary ink notes to front blanks and 2pp. of manuscript notes to rear blank, 2pp. publisher’s advertisements to rear. (Browning, occasional spotting.) Contemporary brown full calf, later red calf lettering piece (lightly scuffed). Provenance: R. Welby (ink name to front pastedown); William Richardson (ink name to A3); David Standish (inscribed verso imprimatur leaf). Note: scarce first edition of this influential work on gardening. The ink notes on the blank leaves form a manuscript index which is divided- like the book- into the months of the year.