Paradisi in sole Paradisus Terrestris. Or a Garden of all sorts of pleasant flowers.
by PARKINSON, John
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- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
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About This Item
London: Humfrey Lownes and Robert Young, 1629. Hardcover. Very Good. Folio; contemporary calf, rebacked. First edition of Parkinsons first book and one of the most beloved of all early English books on gardening (Hunt). Woodcut title with elaborate scene of the Garden of Eden, signed "A Switzer", 108 full-page woodcuts each with numerous figures of plants, one full-page woodcut of garden designs, 3 small text woodcuts, woodcut head- and tail-pieces and initials (lacking final two leaves: A Table of the Vertues and Properties of the Hearbes contained in this Booke and colophon; title page rehinged, portrait leaf supplied from another copy. Parkinson was apothecary and botanist to Charles I, and a large number of the nearly 1000 plants described in this book were grown by the author himself in his garden at Long Acre. The book is filled with references to contemporary botanists and gardeners, and provides one of the best single sources of information on gardening practices and styles in early 17th-century England, "in such a delightful, homey style that gardeners cherish it to the present day" (Hunt). Early gift inscription to John Blake from his aunt Elizabeth Blake and much later bookplate of an H. C. L. Morris, M. D.
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- Sanctuary Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- D18573
- Title
- Paradisi in sole Paradisus Terrestris. Or a Garden of all sorts of pleasant flowers.
- Author
- PARKINSON, John
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Humfrey Lownes and Robert Young
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1629
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