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Mascall, Leonard
Estimate
1,800 - 2,500 USD
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Description
- A Booke of the Arte and Manner How to Plant and Graffe All Sorts of Trees, How to Sette Stones and Sow Pipins, to Make Wild Trees to Graffe On, as Also Remedies and Medicines... London: [Valentine Simmes, 1596]
- paper, ink, leather
4to (7 x 4 3/4 in.; 178 x 121 mm). Full-page woodcut of grafting tools, six total woodcut illustrations (title-page vignette being repeated on L1v), numerous woodcut head- and tailpieces and initials, text in black letter and roman type, light browning and scattered browning in quire L. Eighteenth-century speckled calf gilt; joints cracked, spine defective, extremities worn, old tear in upper right corner of front cover.
Provenance
William Charles de Meuron, 7th Earl Fitzgibbon, 1872–1943 (armorial bookplate)
Literature
STC 17579; ESTC S112422
Catalogue Note
A pirated edition, with woodcuts copied from previous editions.