Author:John Hill

John Hill
(1716–1775)

John Hill

Works

As author

• Lucine sine Concubitu (1750), a letter addressed to the Royal Society
• A Dissertation on Royal Societies (1750)
• Review of the Works of the Royal Society of London (1751)
• The Oeconomy of Human Life (1751)
• "The Inspector" (1751–1753), a daily column in the London Advertiser and Literary Gazette
• The Impertinent (1752)
• Letters from the Inspector to a Lady with the Genuine Answers (1752)
• Various articles in the Cyclopaedia and its Supplement (1753)
• The Useful Family Herbal (1755)
• Thoughts Concerning God and Nature (1755)
• The British Herbal (1756–1757)
• Eden, or, A Compleat Body of Gardening... (1757) (external scan)
• Outlines of a System of Vegetable Generation (1758)
• The Virtues of Honey in Preventing Many of the Worst Disorders (1759)
• The Vegetable System (1759–1775)
• Hortus Kewensis (1768; 2nd ed. 1769)
• The Construction of Timber from Its Early Growth (1770)
• Virtues of British Herbs (1771)
• A Decade of Curious Insects (1773)

As editor

• British Magazine (1746–1750)

As translator

• Theophrastus's History of Stones (1774) (transcription project)

Misattributed

• Hannah Glasse, The Art of Cookery (1747), often misattributed to Hill as it was published anonymously

Works about Hill

• [Anonymous] (1779), Short Account of the Life, Writings and Character of the late Sir John Hill.
• Smart, Christopher (1753), The Hilliad
  • a mock epic poem written as a literary attack on Hill; part of the Paper War
• Henry Woodward (1752), A letter from Henry Woodward
  • an attack on Hill; part of the Paper War
• "Hill, John (1716?-1775)," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
• Hill, Thomas George (1913), "John Hill 1716—1775" in Oliver, Francis Wall (ed.), Makers of British botany:84–107.