On the Portraits of English Authors on Gardening, / with Biographical Notices of Them, 2nd edition, with considerable additions

Lately published, by the same Author, price 3s. GLEANINGS ON GARDENS; Chiefly respecting those of the Ancient Style in England. PRINTED BY LOWE AND HARVEY, PLAYHOUSE YARD, BLACKFRIARS.
Your painting is almost the natural man.—Timon of Athens.
A snapper-up of unconsidered trifles.—Winter's Tale.
I will make a prief of it in my note-book.—M. W. of Windsor.
SECOND EDITION, WITH CONSIDERABLE ADDITIONS.
LONDON: 1830. PUBLISHED BY EFFINGHAM WILSON, ROYAL EXCHANGE; AND JOSEPH ONWHYN, CATHARINE STREET, STRAND.

The following pages apply only to those English writers on gardening who are deceased. That there have been portraits taken of some of those sixty-nine English writers, whose names first occur in the following pages, there can be no doubt; and those portraits may yet be with their surviving relatives or descendants. I am not so presumptuous as to apply to the following most slight memorials, some of which relate to very obscure persons, who claimed neither the boast of heraldry, nor the pomp of power, but whose
——useful toil, Their homely joys and destiny obscure
What native of the county of Hereford, but must wish to see their town-hall ornamented with a life-breathing portrait of Dr. Beale, embodying, as it were, in the resemblance of the individual, (to use the words of a most eloquent person on another occasion), his spirit, his feelings, and his character? Or what elegant scholar but must wish to view the resemblance of the almost unknown Thomas Whately, Esq., or that of the Rev. William Gilpin, whose vivid pen (like that of the late Sir Uvedale Price), has realized painting, and enchained his readers to the rich scenes of nature?
Dr. Johnson calls portrait painting that art which is employed in diffusing friendship, in reviving tenderness, in quickening the affections of the absent, and continuing the presence of the dead.
——— enchanteur De Lille! O Virgile moderne !