Paradisi in sole Paradisus Terrestris. Or A garden of all sorts of pleasant flowers which our English ayre will permitt to be noursed up: with a Kitchen garden of all manner of herbes, rootes, & fruites, for meate or sause used with us, and an Orchard of all sorte of fruitbearing Trees and shrubbes fit for our Land together with the right orderinge planting & preserving of them and their uses & vertues, Collected by John PArkinson Apothecary of London, 1st edition, London: [Humfrey Lownes and Robert Young], 1629, imprint from colophon, woodcut title close-trimmed and lined to verso (some cropping to ruled border at head & foot), numerous woodcut illustrations, 35 leaves (**2-E6) at front of volume torn to fore-edge with some loss and repaired (mostly affecting blank margins), *6 possibly from another copy, lower outer corner of 2Y4 repaired, 3G1 & 3G2 at rear of volume also torn to blank margins and repaired, some dust-soiling, occasional dampstaining and few marks, endpapers renewed, contemporary sheep, rebacked and corners repaired, small folio in 6s Henrey 282; Nissen 1489; Hunt 215; STC 19300. First edition of "the earliest important treatise on horticulture published in England" (Henrey). A1r line 4 of heading ends "amend" in this example. A variant also occurs with the quire reset, with A1r line 4 of heading ending "amend the". (1)
Paradisi in sole Paradisus Terrestris. Or A garden of all sorts of pleasant flowers which our English ayre will permitt to be noursed up: with a Kitchen garden of all manner of herbes, rootes, & fruites, for meate or sause used with us, and an Orchard of all sorte of fruitbearing Trees and shrubbes fit for our Land together with the right orderinge planting & preserving of them and their uses & vertues, Collected by John PArkinson Apothecary of London, 1st edition, London: [Humfrey Lownes and Robert Young], 1629, imprint from colophon, woodcut title close-trimmed and lined to verso (some cropping to ruled border at head & foot), numerous woodcut illustrations, 35 leaves (**2-E6) at front of volume torn to fore-edge with some loss and repaired (mostly affecting blank margins), *6 possibly from another copy, lower outer corner of 2Y4 repaired, 3G1 & 3G2 at rear of volume also torn to blank margins and repaired, some dust-soiling, occasional dampstaining and few marks, endpapers renewed, contemporary sheep, rebacked and corners repaired, small folio in 6s Henrey 282; Nissen 1489; Hunt 215; STC 19300. First edition of "the earliest important treatise on horticulture published in England" (Henrey). A1r line 4 of heading ends "amend" in this example. A variant also occurs with the quire reset, with A1r line 4 of heading ending "amend the". (1)
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