PONTEY, William (fl.1780-1831). The Forest Pruner; or, Timber Owner's Assistant: A Treatise on the Training or Management of British Timber Trees ... The Third Edition. London: Printed for J. Harding, 1810. 8vo (220 x 150mm). Engraved frontispiece and 7 plates, 4 of which coloured, 3 of which folding or double-page, 3-pages of publisher's advertisements at the end (some mainly marginal light spotting and staining). Later green half calf by Bumpus, the spine lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt, others uncut (some light staining). Provenance: Loraine of Kirkharle (armorial bookplate). The first edition was published in 1805. Not in Brunet; cf. Raphael An Oak Spring Sylva. A Selection of the Rare Books on Trees in the Oak Spring Garden Library (1989) No. 43. With 4 other works in 5 volumes, namely the Abbé de Vertot's The History of the Revolutions of Portugal ... The Fifth Edition (London, 1754, 8vo, contemporary calf), John Hill's The Family Herbal (Bungay, 1812, 8vo, 54 hand-coloured botanical plates, contemporary calf gilt), George Tattersall's The Lakes of England (London, 1836, 8vo, folding hand-coloured engraved map of the Lake District, plates, contemporary half calf), and Thomas Moore's Nature-Printed British Ferns (London, 1863 [engraved titles dated 1859], 2 volumes, large 8vo, 2 additional engraved titles and 122 coloured "nature-printed" plates by Henry Bradbury, 20th-century full calf gilt). (6)
