PARADISI IN SOLE PARADISUS TERRESTRIS. OR A GARDEN OF ALL SORTS OF PLEASANT FLOWERS WHICH OUR ENGLISH AYRE WILL PERMITT TO BE NOURSED
PARADISI IN SOLE PARADISUS TERRESTRIS. OR A GARDEN OF ALL SORTS OF PLEASANT FLOWERS WHICH OUR ENGLISH AYRE WILL PERMITT TO BE NOURSED
Edition: First Edition
Place of Publication: London
Publisher: printed by Humfrey Lownes and Robert Young at the signe of the Starre on Bread-street hill
Publication Date: 1629
More Details
ESTC: S115360; Hunt: 215; Nissen BBI: 1489; Pritzel 6933.
The title page is xylographic and signed: A Switzer. Imprint from colophon. A1r line 4 of heading ends "amend". Signatures: 2*6 A-FFF6 GGG2.
First edition of “one of the most beloved of all early English books on gardening” (Hunt). 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).
"The earliest important treatise on horticulture published in England" (Henrey).
Folio, [12], 612, [16] pages. In Good minus condition. Bound in brown suede with paneled spine bearing a black label and gilt titling. Binding shows significant wear, including peeling to all extremities. Front hinge splitting on both upper and lower edges. Title page trimmed at top edge. Flower marginalia to D1, D3, Aa5, Gg2, Hh1. Various tide-marks throughout. Woodcut xylographic 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; and woodcut head- and tail-pieces and initials. This volume appears to be from two married volumes, given the varying paper quality and the worming locations.
Detailed condition notes: Backing to fore edge of title page through page 9 (A5), as well as to gutter of Mm2 and Mm5-60, and to fore edge Fff6-Ggg2. A small chip to the lower fore corner of E5. Some leaves with short closed marginal tears, notably to the fore edges of M5, N1, X5, and Y3, and to the lower Gg1. Wear to fore edges of Z5-6, Kk1-2, and Xx5-6. A small hole, possibly the result of burning, to Ll6. Two pinprick worming holes to R3-X2, expanding slightly on pages X5-Z4m, Aa1-Cc5, Dd2-Hh4, Hh6, Ii2-5, Kk1-2, Kk4, Kk6, Ll2-Ll5, Mm2-Nn6, Oo4-5, Pp1-Qq6, Xx1-Yy2, Yy4-Bbb3. Non-matching set of worming to Qq6-Vv6, Fff6-Ggg2. MK Consignment. Shelved in Case 4.
The title page is xylographic and signed: A Switzer. Imprint from colophon. A1r line 4 of heading ends "amend". Signatures: 2*6 A-FFF6 GGG2.
First edition of “one of the most beloved of all early English books on gardening” (Hunt). 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).
"The earliest important treatise on horticulture published in England" (Henrey).
Folio, [12], 612, [16] pages. In Good minus condition. Bound in brown suede with paneled spine bearing a black label and gilt titling. Binding shows significant wear, including peeling to all extremities. Front hinge splitting on both upper and lower edges. Title page trimmed at top edge. Flower marginalia to D1, D3, Aa5, Gg2, Hh1. Various tide-marks throughout. Woodcut xylographic 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; and woodcut head- and tail-pieces and initials. This volume appears to be from two married volumes, given the varying paper quality and the worming locations.
Detailed condition notes: Backing to fore edge of title page through page 9 (A5), as well as to gutter of Mm2 and Mm5-60, and to fore edge Fff6-Ggg2. A small chip to the lower fore corner of E5. Some leaves with short closed marginal tears, notably to the fore edges of M5, N1, X5, and Y3, and to the lower Gg1. Wear to fore edges of Z5-6, Kk1-2, and Xx5-6. A small hole, possibly the result of burning, to Ll6. Two pinprick worming holes to R3-X2, expanding slightly on pages X5-Z4m, Aa1-Cc5, Dd2-Hh4, Hh6, Ii2-5, Kk1-2, Kk4, Kk6, Ll2-Ll5, Mm2-Nn6, Oo4-5, Pp1-Qq6, Xx1-Yy2, Yy4-Bbb3. Non-matching set of worming to Qq6-Vv6, Fff6-Ggg2. MK Consignment. Shelved in Case 4.
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