Meager, Leonard

Estimate

2,000 - 3,000 USD

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Description

The English gardener: or, A sure guide to young planters and gardeners...shewing the way and order of planting and raising all sorts of stocks, fruit-trees, and shrubs... London: P. Parker, 1670
paper, ink, leather

4to (190 x 140 mm). 24 engraved plates of garden designs and mazes; old ink marginalia, barrel trimmed at head, lightly browned, some light spotting and occasional minor soiling. Original boards with old rebacking in sheet; rubbed.

Literature

Wing M1568; Henrey 240; Hunt 316

Catalogue Note

first edition. A scarce work with an emphasis on planting a "kitchin garden" as well as more decorative plantings.