The English gardener, or, A sure guide to young planters and gardeners : in three parts : the first, shewing the way and order of planting and raising all sorts of stocks, fruit-trees, and shrubs, with the divers ways and manners of ingrafting and inoculating them in their several seasons, ordering, and preservation : the second, how to order the kitchin-garden, for all sorts of herbs, roots, and sallads : the third, the ordering of the garden of pleasure, with variety of knots, and wilderness-work after the best fashion, all cut in copper plates : also the choicest and most approved ways for the raising all sorts of flowers and their seasons, with directions concerning arbors, and hedges in gardens : likewise several other very useful things fit to be known of all that delight in orchards and gardens : fitted for the use of all such as delight in gardening, whereby the meanest capacity need not doubt of success (observing the rules herein directed) in their undertakings / by Leonard Meager ...

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Meager, Leonard, 1624?-1704?, author.

Contributor:

Parker, Peter, active 1665-1703, bookseller.

Jonathan A. Hill Endowed Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gardening--Early works to 1800.

Gardening.

Gardening--Great Britain--Early works to 1800.

Great Britain.

Genre:

Early works.

Penn Provenance:

Orde, Elizabeth Burnaby-Atkins, 1871-1960 (autograph) (Kislak Center copy)

Halstead Place (Halstead, Kent, England). Library (bookplate) (Kislak Center copy)

Blome(?), Richard (autograph) (Kislak Center copy)

Knohl, Howard R., 1937- (bookplate) (Kislak Center copy)

Knohl, Linda Freed, 1940- (bookplate) (Kislak Center copy)

Physical Description:

[8], 28, 41-88, 161-252 pages, 24, [1] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm (4to)

Other Title:

English gardener

Sure guide to young planters and gardeners

Fingerprint:

ento otey k,of toit (3) 1670 (A)

Place of Publication:

London : Printed for P. Parker at the first shop on the right hand in Popes-Head-Alley going out of Cornhil, 1670.

Notes:

Signatures: A-D⁴ E² F-L⁴ 2A-2L⁴ 2M².

"Text continuous despite pagination."--ESTC.

Title within border of double rules.

Woodcut initial.

Type ornament head-pieces.

"To the worshipfull Philip Hollman of Warkworth in the County of Northampton, esq;": Leaf A2.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center copy imperfect: 24 numbered leaves of plates only.

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Jonathan A. Hill Endowed Fund.

Kislak Center copy has manuscript collation note in pencil on front pastedown; early manuscript note ("Mary") on front free endpaper; a few early manuscript notes and marks in text.

Kislak Center copy purchased for the Penn Libraries on 31 January 2024 at auction from Forum Auctions (lot 193).

Kislak Center copy has dated 19th-century autograph ("Elizabeth C. Burnaby-Atkins Halstead 1889") of Elizabeth Caroline Burnaby-Atkins (later Orde; 1871-1960) on front pastedown.

Kislak Center copy has bookplate ("Library HALSTEAD PLACE Case D Shelf 1 No. Top.") with the case, shelf, and number supplied in manuscript affixed to front pastedown.

Kislak Center copy has early autograph ("Rich: Blome[?]") on title leaf.

Kislak Center copy has illustrated bookplate ("FOX POINTE COLLECTION FPC LIBRARY OF Dr. & Mrs. H.R. Knohl") on back pastedown.

Kislak Center copy has laid in card with lot description of this item from Sotheby's auction "Selections from the Fox Pointe Manor Library" (New York, 26 October 2016).

Cited in:

ESTC R14900

Wing (CD-ROM, 1996) M1568

OCLC:

81138326