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PARKINSON (JOHN) Paradisi in sole paradisus terrestris. Or a Garden of all Sorts of Pleasant Flowers which our English Ayre will Permitt to be Noursed up, FIRST EDITION, [colophon:] Humfrey Lownes and Robert Young, 1629 image 1
PARKINSON (JOHN) Paradisi in sole paradisus terrestris. Or a Garden of all Sorts of Pleasant Flowers which our English Ayre will Permitt to be Noursed up, FIRST EDITION, [colophon:] Humfrey Lownes and Robert Young, 1629 image 2
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PARKINSON (JOHN)
Paradisi in sole paradisus terrestris. Or a Garden of all Sorts of Pleasant Flowers which our English Ayre will Permitt to be Noursed up, FIRST EDITION, [colophon:] Humfrey Lownes and Robert Young, 1629

25 March 2015, 11:00 GMT
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PARKINSON (JOHN)

Paradisi in sole paradisus terrestris. Or a Garden of all Sorts of Pleasant Flowers which our English Ayre will Permitt to be Noursed up, FIRST EDITION, allegorical woodcut title by A. Switzer, woodcut portrait of Parkinson, one full-page garden design, one small orchard plan, one small woodcut of tools and methods of grafting, and 109 full-page cuts illustrating about 780 varieties of plants, a few early annotations, title skilfully remargined at fore-edge and top-edge, with outer border and 2mm. of image at lower right corner supplied in ink, polished mottled calf by Riviere, g.e. [STC 19300; Henrey 282; Hunt 215; Nissen BBI 1489], folio (315 x 195mm.), [colophon:] Humfrey Lownes and Robert Young, 1629

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"One of the most beloved of all early English books on gardening" (Hunt) and the "earliest important treatise on gardening to be published in [England].... Of interest and value as a record of the state of horticulture in England at the beginning of the seventeenth century" (Henrey). Parkinson was an apothecary at Long Acre, where he tended his garden.

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