1626: ONE OF THE RAREST EARLY OF ENGLISH GARDENING - WOODCUTS RARE
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| Reference Number: Avaluer:603791 | Year Printed: 1626 |
| Language: English |
1626. FIRST EDITION OF ONE OF THE RAREST EARLY WORKS OF ENGLISH GARDENING - WITH LABYRINTHS
THE ONLY COPY AT AUCTION IN ALMOST 100 YEARS IN RBH
William Lawson; Simon Harward. A nevv orchard and garden: or, The best way for planting, grafting, and to make any ground good, for a rich orchard : particularly in the north, and generally for the whole kingdome of England, as in nature, reason, situation, and all probabilitie, may and doth appeare. With the country housewifes ...garden for herbs of common vse, their vertues, seasons, profits, ornaments, varietie of knots, models for trees, and plots for the best ordering of grounds and walkes. As also the husbandry of bees, with their seuerall vses and annoyances, all being the experience of 48. yeeres labour, and now the third time corrected and much enlarged, by William Lawson. Whereunto is newly added the art of propagating plants, with the true ordering of all manner of fruits, in their gathering, carrying home, and preseruation. Printed at London : By I. H[aviland] for Francis Williams, 1626. 4to 18 x 13.5 cm. Printer's name just evident from top of letters on trimmed low margin.
Description:[8], 56 of 57 only, lacking leaf. Also note : in some but not all copies, the text is followed with additional tracts NOT present here with continuous register including "The country housevvifes garden", incorrectly attributed to Gervase Markham, has separate dated title page and pagination; "A most profitable new treatise, from approued experience of the art of propagating plants: by Simon Harward" and "The husband-mans fruitfull orchard" (caption titles) each have separate pagination; Additionally C2 in this copy is defective lacking 1/3 of the page with the handsome woodcut on verso damaged. Internally, some shaving, a few loses to lower corners sometimes touching footnotes, some general toning and other minor flaws. Binding later mottled calf, later paste-downs and blanks, numerous banks at end to thicken text block for binding. Overall, despite imperfections, AN EXTREMELY RARE English Gardening book on the first edition, with some crossover interesting into labyrinths / puzzles. Besides this copy, NO COPY HAS APPEARED OF THIS FIRST EDITION AT AUCTION IN RBH SINCE 1920!
Worldcat lists only 4 copies.
