First Garden Book : being a faithful reprint of A Most Briefe and Pleasaunt Treatyse, teachyng howe to dress, sowe, and set a garden / by Thomas Hyll, Londyn 1563 ; collated and edited by Violet and Hal W. Trovillion authors of The Tussie Mussies, In Casa Mia, Sundial In our Garden, Delightes for Ladies, Recipes & Remedies of Early England, etc.

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, publisher, printer.

Nick Malgieri Culinary Archive and Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Culinary Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

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

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gardening--Early works to 1800.

Gardening.

Genre:

Private press books (Printing)

Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Regal.

Ragston (Paper).

Penn Provenance:

Malgieri, Nick (donor) (Malgieri Collection copy)

Trovillion, Violet, 1890-1979 (autograph) (Malgieri Collection copy)

Trovillion, Hal W., 1879-1967 (autograph) (Malgieri Collection copy)

Quackenbush, Ree (autograph) (former owner) (Malgieri Collection copy)

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

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

Trovillion, Hal W., 1879-1967 (autograph) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

Trovillion, Violet, 1890-1979 (autograph) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xv pages, 1 unnumbered page, 98 pages, 2 unnumbered pages : illustrations, portraits, facsimiles ; 19 cm

Edition:

[Third limited edition].

Place of Publication:

Herrin, Illinois : Published by Trovillion Private Press, at the sign of the Silver Horse, 1946, 1938.

Notes:

"Copyright 1938 Trovillion Private Press. Second Reprint 1939. Third Reprint 1946."

"The first and second reprint editions we brought out were quickly exhausted by students of garden literature. To supply the demands of collectors and libraries, this third limited edition is issued. The format of the original has been followed in a manner, however, no attempt has been made to match up the type face which in the original is not very readable ... To give the readers who may be interested in just how the original text looks, we have reproduced facsimile pages of some of the opening chapters. "--Preface dated in the summer of 1946.

Contains introduction by Eleanor Sinclair Rohde.

"A limited edition of nine hundred and eighty-seven copies of A Most Briefe and Pleasaunt Treatyse by T. Hyll, Londyner, first garden book to be published in the English language, set in seven-point Regal, printed on Ragston paper, was published for Violet and Hal W. Trovillion by Trovillion Private Press ... in the summer of 1946."

Rust colored cloth boards lettered and stamped in gold on front cover and spine.

Local Notes:

Nick Malgieri Culinary Archive and Library copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2015 by Nick Malgieri.

Malgieri Collection copy is number 295 with autographs of Violet & Hal Trovillion.

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 has number 944. With protective wrapper.

OCLC:

1011279773