A New Orchard & Garden: or the Best Way for Planting, Graffing and to make any Ground good for a Rich Orchard: Particularly in the North etc. With the Country Housewife's Garden for Herbs of Common Use etc; also The Husbandry of Bees etc

Lawson, William (preface by Eleanour Sinclair Rohde)

Edité par The Cresset Press, London, 1927

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Facsimile reprint, a few illustrations, square octavo, pp xxvi, 116, top edge gilt, other edges uncut, two neat signatures of previous owner's on the front endpaper, otherwise very clean internally, quarter vellum and boards, the corners very slightly bumped otherwise really qjuite bright. Limited numbered edition of 650 copies, of which this is number 298. [William Lawson (1553/4-1635) was the vicar of Ormesby, a country parish in Yorkshire. First and foremost a religious man who carried out his clerical duties most diligently, he was obviously also a keen gardener with considerable land. A man of some learning, he evidently read widely on agriculture and gardening, and his two works are also scattered with references to the classics. When he died he willed 'all my latine books & mie English books of contraversie' to his son William, which suggests that he may well have owned a relatively substantial library of books for the period. His book is a result of forty eight years experience in working a northern garden. Occasionally in the text he refers to the difficulties of this environment. He advises his fellow northerners, for instance, to 'meddle not with Apricockes nor Peaches, nor scarcely with Quinces, which will not like our cold parts'. This book can therefore be credited with being the first to deal with the northern garden.].

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• Titre: A New Orchard & Garden: or the Best Way for Planting, Graffing and to make any Ground good for a Rich Orchard: Particularly in the North etc. With the Country Housewife's Garden for Herbs of Common Use etc; also The Husbandry of Bees etc
• Éditeur: The Cresset Press, London
• Date de parution: 1927
• Reliure: Quarter vellum
• État de l'article: Good
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