PARKINSON, John (1567-1650). Paradisi in sole Paradisus Terrestris. Or a Garden of all sorts of pleasant flowers. London: Humfrey Lownes and Robert Young, 1629.

Folio (312 x 200 mm). Woodcut title with a Garden of Eden scene signed "A Switzer" (title-page laid down, margins shaved); woodcut portrait; one full-page garden design woodcut; 109 full-page woodcuts, one small orchard plan woodcut; one small woodcut of tools and methods of grafting. (Lacking final 9 leaves, marginal repairs to several leaves occasionally affecting text and plates, some soiling.) contemporary calf (rebacked, repairs to corners, endpapers renewed, worn).

FIRST EDITION of "one of the most beloved of all early English books on gardening" (Hunt). Parkinson's work remains one of the best single sources of information on early 17th-century gardening practices and styles in England, "in such a delightful, homey style that gardeners cherish it to the present day" (Hunt). Henrey 282; Hunt 215; Nissen BBI 1489; Pritzel 6933.

[With:] PARKINSON. Paradisi in Sole Paradisus Terrestris by John Parkinson. Faithfully Reprinted from the Edition of 1629. London: Methuen & Co., 1904. Folio. Illustrated. Original cloth. LIMITED FACSIMILE EDITION, one of 30 copies on Japanese Vellum.

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PARKINSON, John (1567-1650). Paradisi in sole Paradisus Terrestris. Or a Garden of all sorts of pleasant flowers. London: Humfrey Lownes and Robert Young, 1629.