SWITZER, Stephen. Ichnographia Rustica: or, the Nobleman, Gentleman, and Gardener’s Recreation. Containing Directions for the Surveying and Distributing of a County-Seat into Rural and Extensive Gardens, by the Ornamenting and Decoration of distant Prospects, Farms, Parks, Paddocks, &c. London: J. and J. Fox, B. and B. Barker, D. Browne, F. Gosling, 1742. 2 vols. [only, of 3.] Second edition, 8vo (197 x 116mm.) 52 engraved plates, including 15 folding. (Browning, marginal chipping to 1 plate.) Contemporary calf, brown morocco lettering pieces to the spines (extremities rubbed, insect-damage to upper cover of vol. 2). – And a further two volumes (William Kingdom’s ‘The Secretary’s Assistant’, 1838, 12mo, and [Samuel Byer’s] ‘Switzerland and the Swiss’, 1877, 8vo) (3).