Yellow Hemerocallis et al: Hill 1757

Title: Yellow Hemerocallis et al Author: John Hill Date: 1757 Medium: Hand-colored copperplate engraving Condition: Excellent - light age toning Inches: 10 7/8 x 17 1/4 [Paper] Centimeters: 27.62 x 43.82 [Paper] Product ID: 232017 1. Yellow Hemerocallis 2. Great red Cheiranthus 3. Orange Hawkweed 4. The Bee Flower 5. Dotted Canna 6. Crimson Byzantine Lilly Eden: or, A Complete Body of Gardening by John Hill, London, dated 1757. Containing plain and familiar directions for raising the several useful products of a garden, fruits, roots, and herbage; From the practice of the most successful gardeners and the result of a long experience. Together with the culture of all kinds of flowers, according to the methods of the English, French and Dutch florists. With figures and descriptions of the flowers and plants proper for a garden.This detailed, charming and whimsical work by John Hill, the first author to introduce the Linnaean taxonomic system to England, depicts newly imp