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Batty Langley, “An Improvement of the Labyrinth at Versailles,” in New Principles of Gardening, or, The laying out and planting parterres, groves, wildernesses, labyrinths, avenues, parks, &c. : after a more grand and rural manner, than has been done before with experimental directions for raising the several kinds of fruit-trees, forest-trees, ever-greens and flowering-shrubs with which gardens are adorn'd. To which is added, the various names, descriptions, temperatures, medicinal virtues, uses and cultivations of several roots, pulse, herbs, &c. of the kitchen and physick gardens, that are absolutely necessary for the service of families in general. Illustrated with great variety of grand designs, curiously engraven on twenty-eight folio plates, by the best hands (1728), pl. VIII. Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, Washington, D.C.