Edinburgh: John Murray, 1828. Title page continues: " interspersed with observations on general planting, and the improvement of real landscape; originally intended for the cimate of Scotland.". Second edition, "greatly improved and enlarged". (first edition was in 1827). Octavo, pp (1, ads(), [3, blank], (8), (xxxviii), 325 + frontispiece and 5 other steel engravings. Bound in original grey boards, rebacked in matching grey cloth, with original paper spine label, fore and bottom page edges rough trimmed. Mild soiling to boards, label yellowed with light rubbing; yellowing to page edges; one line rubber stamp in bottom margin of title page; plates foxed, with some light foxing on adjacent leaves and scattered lighf foxing in text. In all, VG or better, clean, tight and unworn. Sir Henry Seton Steuart devoted much of his life to literary pursuits and his estate, Allanton, in Scotland. Having been favourablu reviewed by Sir Walter Scott, who had visited him, ‘The Planter's Guide’ was also favourably reviewed by Southwood Smith in the ‘Westminster Review,’ by Professor Wilson (‘Christopher North’) in ‘Blackwood's Magazine’ (April 1828), and in the ‘Edinburgh Review’ (March 1829). It had a large circulation in America. In his preface to the second edition Steuart claims to have made the first attempt to apply the principles of physiology to practical arboriculture, and to have created the new science of phytology. W. Billington, formerly of the woods and forests department, asserted, however, that he had anticipated, in a work published in 1825, some of the author's discoveries (Facts, Observations, &c., being an Exposure of the Misrepresentation of the Author's Treatise on Planting, 1830). It was also criticised by W. Withers (Letter to Sir H. Steuart on the Improvement in the quality of Timber by the High Cultivation and Quick Growth of Forest Trees, 1829). Steuart's method of transplanting was tried with great success on estates in England and Ireland."- DNB. Note: 1.5 kg parcel, extra shipping will be required.