Paradisi in sole paradisus terrestris, or, A choise garden of all sorts of rarest flowers : with their nature, place of birth, time of flowring, names, and vertues to each plant, useful in physick, or admired for beauty : to which is annext a kitchin-garden furnished with all manner of herbs, roots, and fruits, for meat or sawce used with us : with the art of planting an orchard of all sorts of fruit-bearing trees and shrubs, shewing the nature of grafting, inoculating, and pruning of them : together with the right ordering, planting, and preserving of them, with their select vertues : all unmentioned in former herbals / collected by John Parkinson, apothecary of London, and the Kings herbarist.
1656
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Paradisi in sole paradisus terrestris, or, A choise garden of all sorts of rarest flowers : with their nature, place of birth, time of flowring, names, and vertues to each plant, useful in physick, or admired for beauty : to which is annext a kitchin-garden furnished with all manner of herbs, roots, and fruits, for meat or sawce used with us : with the art of planting an orchard of all sorts of fruit-bearing trees and shrubs, shewing the nature of grafting, inoculating, and pruning of them : together with the right ordering, planting, and preserving of them, with their select vertues : all unmentioned in former herbals / collected by John Parkinson, apothecary of London, and the Kings herbarist.
Uniform title
Paradisi in sole paradisus terrestris
Edition
The second impression much corrected and enlarged.
Created/published
London : Printed by R.N. and are to be sold by Richard Thrale at his shop at the signe of the Cross-Keys at Pauls-gate, going into Cheap-side, 1656.
Description
[12], 612, [16] p. : ill. (woodcuts) ; 36 cm (fol.)
Associated name
Parkinson, John, 1567-1650. author.
Thrale, Richard, -1678, bookseller.
Cooper, J. Eleanor, active 1923, binder.
Thrale, Richard, -1678, bookseller.
Cooper, J. Eleanor, active 1923, binder.
Note
Added illustrated title page with a woodcut of Garden of Eden with Adam and Eve. Title in cartouche, with different version of alternative title: "A garden of all sorts of pleasant flowers ..."
Originally published in 1629; this "second impression" was reprinted almost verbatim.
Signatures: *⁶ A-3E⁶ 3F⁸.
Advertisements for Richard Thrale on verso of final leaf.
Includes indexes.
Originally published in 1629; this "second impression" was reprinted almost verbatim.
Signatures: *⁶ A-3E⁶ 3F⁸.
Advertisements for Richard Thrale on verso of final leaf.
Includes indexes.
Cited/described in
English short title catalogue (ESTC), R491318
Wing, D.G. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British America, and of English books printed in other countries, 1641-1700 (2nd ed.), P495
Henrey, B. Brit. botanical lit., 285
BM (NH) v. 4, p. 1523
Wing, D.G. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British America, and of English books printed in other countries, 1641-1700 (2nd ed.), P495
Henrey, B. Brit. botanical lit., 285
BM (NH) v. 4, p. 1523
Genre/form
Botanical illustrations.
Herbals (reference sources)
Illustrated books.
Booksellers' advertisements.
Insertions (Provenance)
Herbals (reference sources)
Illustrated books.
Booksellers' advertisements.
Insertions (Provenance)
Place of creation/publication
Great Britian -- England -- London.
Item Details
Call number
267- 892f
Folger-specific note
Imperfect: wanting leaves: P2 (p. 171-172), 2A2 (p. 279-280), 2Y2 (p. 531-532), 3F8 (p. [15]-[16] of index). Leaves 3F5-6 misbound between 3F2 and 3F3. Added illustrated title page has been repaired and mounted. Manuscript note (upside down) on front free endpaper: "Rebound by J. Eleanor Cooper, 24 and 25 Gt. Russell Steet, W.C.1, 1923." Bound in modern full brown leather. One leaf (flyer for Baltimore Colts tickets) with manuscript list of items stolen from a car laid in at p. 358. Gift of Anne Murphy, 6 June 2013.
Folger accession
267892
Call number
173- 698f
Folger-specific note
Leaf 3D6 torn and repaired. Bound in later half brown leather over green and red marbled boards and endpapers. Trimmed to 33 cm. One leaf from a different book (a plate of "The flower of the tulip tree") laid in. Bought from The Beauchamp Bookshop (28:273), 15 September 1959.
Folger accession
173698