8vo. 32pp. With an engraved folding plan. Extra-illustrated with an engraved dedication leaf and 11 engraved plates of views (one folding) seemingly extracted from Stow: the gardens of the Right Honourable the Lord Viscount Cobham... (1751), signed: B. Seeley, the publisher of the work and draughtsman of the plates. Later blue paper boards, rebacked in modern gilt-ruled calf. Boards worn. Bookplate of the Society of the Holy Child Jesus to FEP, early inked ownership inscription to head of title page.

In 1744 the first full guidebook to the house and grounds was published by Benton Seeley, a writing master in Buckingham. The guidebooks continued for a further 70 years and Seeley went on to become a printer and publisher, founding a business that wound up only in 1978. Seeley's guide book became historically significant. It went through seventeen editions between 1744 and 1797, continually undergoing improvements and revisions. The book’s influence was such that it helped to make the Stowe gardens among the most publicised and copied of the English landscape model.

ESTC records copies of this edition at three locations in the British Isles (Armagh Robinson, Oxford, and V&A), and one further copy in North America (Yale).