Flora: seu, De florum cultura. Or, a complete florilege, furnished with all requisites belonging to a florist

REA, John

Verlag: Printed by J. G. for Richard Marriott, London, 1665

Beschreibung

Full contemporary calf, corners worn. The rare first edition of this early English gardening book. Lacking engraved frontispiece, but otherwise complete with eight plates at the end. "It seems that Rea undertook the writing of his book for the following reason. He had found that Parkinson's Paradisus now needed 'the addition of many noble things of newer discovery, and that a multitude of those there set out, were by time grown stale, and for unworthiness turned out of every good garden'. Rea therefore considered preparing a new edition, but afterwards decided that it would be better to write an entirely new work. This, when it appeared, proved to be the most important English treatise on gardening to be published during the second half of the seventeenth century" (Henry). Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 4324

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Flora: seu, De florum cultura. Or, a ...

Verlag: Printed by J. G. for Richard Marriott, London

Erscheinungsdatum: 1665

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Very Good

Auflage: First Edition.