Plate 26. A PEACHERY & GREEN HOUSE. Executed for The Revd. PRIMATT KNAPP, Shenley End, Bucks
Information
Title
Plate 26. A PEACHERY & GREEN HOUSE. Executed for The Revd. PRIMATT KNAPP, Shenley End, Bucks
Record type
Digitised Book Plate Collection
Original Reference
BP/5930-1001/26
Author or creator
Josiah Taylor (London, England); bookseller, publisher
Date
01 Sep 1806
Scope & content
Coloured engraved plate depicting a 'peachery' and 'green house'. Includes two transverse sections, an elevation and plan with a scale bar to the bottom. Described in the book as having 'a treillage for training the peach and nectarine trees, assuming a convex form to the roof'. The book plate bears the imprints 'Transverse Section of Peachery', 'Transverse Section of Green House', 'Elevation', 'Plan' and 'London, Published Septr. 1st. 1806, by J. Taylor, High Holborn'. From the book 'Plans, elevations and sections, of hot-houses' by George Tod