First garden book : being a faithful reprint of A most briefe and pleasaunt treatyse, teachinge 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.

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

Trovillion Private Press, publisher, printer.

Standardized Title:

Most briefe and pleasaunt treatyse

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gardening--Early works to 1800.

Gardening.

Genre:

Early works.

Private press books (Printing)

Penn Provenance:

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

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

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

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

Physical Description:

xvi, 134, [3] pages : illustrations, facsimiles ; 19 cm

Edition:

Second edition

Other Title:

Of the orderyng of gardens

Place of Publication:

Herrin, Ill. : Published by Trovillion Private Press, MCMXXXIX [1939]

Notes:

Introduction by Eleanour Sinclair Rohde.

"Limited reprint edition"--Preface.

Pages 132-134 should be numbered 133-135.

"This second edition of 266 copies is reprinted ... in December, 1939"--Colophon.

With autograph of editors.

Local Notes:

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

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy 1 (Trovillion Press 2) has inscription: "To Pippy from Thelma Christmas 1943"

Vilain-Wieck Collection copies have dust jackets.

OCLC:

5063605