Beschreibung:

Rea (John). Flora: seu De Florum Cultura. Or, a Complete Florilege, furnished with all Requisites belonging to a Florist. In III Books, 1st edition, London: by J. G. for Richard Marriott, 1665, [22] 174 [2] 175-239 [5] pp., engraved additional title-page by D. Loggan, accompanying text-leaf 'The Mind of the Front.', letterpress title in red and black, 8 engraved plates of garden designs, 2 letterpress section-titles (to Ceres and Pomona), occasional toning, old inked pen-trial to 'The Mind of the Front' recto showing through verso, old wax residue to margin of plate 1, plates 4 and 5 shaved along top and bottom edges, a few spots and marks,contemporary reversed calf, neatly rebacked, folio (28.7 x 17.6 cm) (Qty: 1) Provenance: Henry Streatfeild (1706-1762), English landowner, of Chiddingstone, Kent, with his ownership inscription to head of engraved title-page, and engraved bookplate with Streatfeild family motto 'data fata sequutus' to front pastedown. ESTC R6376; Henrey 325; Tomasi, An Oak Spring Flora 31; Wing R421. A very good copy of ‘one of the most important gardening books to be published in England during the second half of the seventeenth century’ (Tomasi). The work was 'intended as a revision of John Parkinson's Paradisi in sole paradisus terrestris (1629), and includes designs for gardens, and many pages on fruit and tulips' (ODNB). ESTC and Henrey's count of 24 preliminary pages appears to include the additional engraved title.