Ichnographia rustica, or, The nobleman, gentleman, and gardener's recreation : containing directions for the general distribution of a country seat, into rural and extensive gardens, parks, paddocks, &c., and a general system of agriculture : illustrated with great variety of copper-plates, done by the best hands, from the author's drawings
Stephen Switzer's 1718 London treatise on landscape gardening and agriculture, printed for booksellers including D. Browne and B. Barker, was aimed at noblemen, gentlemen and gardeners planning country estates. Its copper-plate engravings are geometric diagrams of polygons, circles and ellipses for laying out ground, plus a formal garden perspective with terraced parterres, clipped hedges and a fountain, which a designer could borrow for plan-based garden layouts.
