First garden book : being a faithful reprint of A most briefe and pleasaunt treatyse, teachings howe to dress, sowe, and set a garden / by Thomas Hyll, Londyner, 1563 ; collated and edited by Violet and Hal W. Trovillion.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hill, Thomas, approximately 1528- author.

Rohde, Eleanour Sinclair, author of introduction.

Contributor:

Trovillion, Violet, 1890-1979, editor, publisher.

Trovillion, Hal W., 1879-1967, editor, publisher.

Trovillion Private Press, printer, publisher.

Jean-François Vilain and Roger S. Wieck Collection of Private Presses, Ephemera, & Related References (University of Pennsylvania)

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Trovillion Private Press, publisher, printer.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gardening--Early works to 1800.

Gardening.

Genre:

Private press books (Printing)

Levan Marlow (Paper).

Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Kenntonian.

Penn Provenance:

Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

Luntz, Florence (autograph) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

Physical Description:

1 volume ( 152 unnumbered pages) : illustrations, portrait, facsimiles ; 18 cm

Place of Publication:

Herrin, IL : Published by Trovillion Private Press, MCMXXXVIII [1938].

Notes:

Introduction signed: Eleanour Sinclair Rohde.

"A limited edition of two hundred and eighty-seven copies ..."--Colophon.

"Printed on Levan Marlow paper, set in 12 point Kenntonian"--brochure for the work.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Jean-François Vilain and Roger Wieck.

Villain-Wieck Collection copy is number 164. Laid in is a 4 page brochure for this work and one other.

OCLC:

3632218