The compleat gard'ner; or, Directions for cultivating and right ordering of fruit-gardens and kitchen-gardens; with divers reflections on several parts of husbandry. In six books. By the famous Monsr. De La Quintinye, chief director of all the gardens of the French-King. To which is added his Treatise of orange-trees, with the raising of melons, omitted in the French editions. Made English by John Evelyn Esquire, illustrated with copper plates.
Jean-Baptiste de La Quintinie (1626-1688)
Category
Books
Date
1693
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Felbrigg, Norfolk
NT 3009401
Summary
Bibliographic description
[44], 106 p., 107-110 leaves, 111-114 p., 115-116 [i.e. 118] leaves, 119-184, [4]; 116, 137-204, [4]; 4, 80 p., [12] leaves of plates (2 folded) : ill., port. ; fol. Water damage on front and rear endpapers. Water staining at foot of leaves throughout. Provenance: eighteenth-century Jacobean armorial bookplate (Franks 32206), lettered: William Windham Esquire [i.e. William Windham (1717-1761)]. Manuscript former shelfmark in pencil on front pastedown: "K7" (crossed out). Binding: late seventeenth-century Cambridge-style blind-panelled sprinkled, sponged and plain calf; sewn onto five supports; gilt roll pattern along board edges; gold-tooled spine; gilt title lettered directly onto spine. Red sprinkled textblock edges.
Makers and roles
Jean-Baptiste de La Quintinie (1626-1688) , author John Evelyn (1620-1706), editor William Elder (fl.1680-1700), engraver (printmaker)