The clergy-man's recreation : shewing the pleasure and profit of the art of gardening / by John Lawrence ...

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Laurence, John, 1668-1732.

Contributor:

Lintot, Bernard, bookseller.

Perkins Books and Archives Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gardening--England--Early works to 1800.

Gardening.

Gardening--Early works to 1800.

Fruit-culture--England--Early works to 1800.

Fruit-culture.

Fruit-culture--Early works to 1800.

England.

Penn Provenance:

Elias, Archibald C. (bookplate) (donor) (RBC copy)

Physical Description:

12 unnumbered pages, 84 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm (8vo)

Edition:

The fifth edition.

Other Title:

Pleasure and profit of gardening, improv'd

Fingerprint:

n-to rer- h,ay veIn (3) 1717 (A)

Place of Publication:

London : Printed for Bernard Lintott ..., 1717.

Notes:

Also issued as part of: Gardening improv'd ... by John Lawrence. Cf. ESTC.

Signatures: A-F⁸.

Leaf A1 (added engraved t.p.) is a cancel.

Title within border of double rules.

Added engraved t.p. on leaf A1.

Woodcuts: illustration, initials, head- and tail-pieces.

Typographical ornaments.

"When Laurence's Clergy-man's recreation Ed. 5 (1717), Gentleman's recreation Ed. 2 (1717) and Fruit-garden kalendar (1718) are bound up together, the dedication to Henry, Duke of Kent, from The fruit-garden kalendar is sometimes transferred to The clergy-man's recreation"--Henrey.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Perkins Books and Archives Fund.

Penn Libraries Fine Arts Rare copy bound with: Laurence, John. The gentleman's recreation, or, The second part of the art of gardening improved. London : Printed for Bernard Lintott ..., 1717 -- Evelyn, Charles. The lady's recreation, or, The third and last part of the art of gardening improv'd. London : Printed for J. Roberts ..., 1717 -- Laurence, John. The fruit-garden kalendar, or, A summary of the art of managing the fruit-garden. London : Printed for Bernard Lintot ..., 1718.

Penn Libraries Fine Arts Rare copy has dedication to Henry, Duke of Kent, before The fruit-garden kalendar.

Penn Libraries Fine Arts Rare copy has ms. shelf mark in ink on front pastedown and bookseller's ms. notes in pencil on front and back free endpapers and back pastedown.

Penn Libraries RBC copy bound with: Laurence, John. The gentleman's recreation, or, The second part of the art of gardening improved. London : Printed for Bernard Lintott ..., 1717 -- Laurence, John. The fruit-garden kalendar, or, A summary of the art of managing the fruit-garden. London : Printed for Bernard Lintot ..., 1718.

Penn Libraries RBC copy has armorial bookplate of an unidentified viscount (possibly related to the Blundell family) on front pastedown; bookplate of Archibald Elias on back pastedown.

Penn Libraries RBC copy has dedication to Henry, Duke of Kent, before The fruit-garden kalendar.

Penn Libraries copy has 2 engraved plates ("Fig. 1" and "Fig. 2") from "The gentleman's recreation" bound in before leaf D1.

Cited in:

Henrey, B. Brit. botanical lit., 937

ESTC T30847

OCLC:

220665714