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PARKINSON, John (1567-1650). Paradisi in Sole Paradisus Terrestris. Or, A Garden of all sorts of pleasant flowers. London: Humfrey Lownes and Robert Young, 1629.
2° (329 x 209mm). Decorative woodcut title by A. Switzer, woodcut portrait of Parkinson, one full-page garden design, one small orchard plan, one small woodcut of tools and methods of grafting, and 109 full-page cuts illustrating about 780 varieties of plants. (Title trimmed closely in the fore-margin with small loss near the foot, occasional light marginal dampstain this a little darker in last gatherings, short worm track mainly confined to the margin of sheet Cc.) 19th-century calf by Reilly, sides with border ruled in gilt and blind, centred with a large gilt ornament, flat spine gilt in compartments, gilt lettering piece, edges red (joints lightly rubbed). Provenance: Quaritch (short inscription recording the binding and purchase by:) -- A. Thompson (presentation inscription dated 22 November 1887 to:) -- Mary Elizabeth Bright.
FIRST EDITION 'ONE OF THE MOST BELOVED OF ALL EARLY ENGLISH BOOKS ON GARDENING' (Hunt). It is the 'earliest important treatise on gardening to be published in [England]... of interest and value as a record of the state of horticulture in England at the beginning of the seventeenth century' (Henrey). Henrey I, p. 164 and 282; STC 19300.
2° (329 x 209mm). Decorative woodcut title by A. Switzer, woodcut portrait of Parkinson, one full-page garden design, one small orchard plan, one small woodcut of tools and methods of grafting, and 109 full-page cuts illustrating about 780 varieties of plants. (Title trimmed closely in the fore-margin with small loss near the foot, occasional light marginal dampstain this a little darker in last gatherings, short worm track mainly confined to the margin of sheet Cc.) 19th-century calf by Reilly, sides with border ruled in gilt and blind, centred with a large gilt ornament, flat spine gilt in compartments, gilt lettering piece, edges red (joints lightly rubbed). Provenance: Quaritch (short inscription recording the binding and purchase by:) -- A. Thompson (presentation inscription dated 22 November 1887 to:) -- Mary Elizabeth Bright.
FIRST EDITION 'ONE OF THE MOST BELOVED OF ALL EARLY ENGLISH BOOKS ON GARDENING' (Hunt). It is the 'earliest important treatise on gardening to be published in [England]... of interest and value as a record of the state of horticulture in England at the beginning of the seventeenth century' (Henrey). Henrey I, p. 164 and 282; STC 19300.
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