Paradisi in sole Paradisus terrestris. . or A garden of all sorts of pleasant flowers which our English ayre will permitt to be noursed up: with a kitchen garden of all manner of herbes, rootes, & fruits... and an orchard of all sorte of fruitbearing trees... together with the right ordering planting & preserving of them... collected by John Parkinson...
John Parkinson (1576-1650)
Category
Books
Date
1629
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Saltram, Devon
NT 3039922
Summary
Bibliographic description
[12], 612, [16]p . ill. (woodcuts) . fol.. The issue with 'amend' at the end of A1r line 4. Old shelf-mark: F/t. 6.4. Provenance: Bookplate - Earl of Morley. Inscription on flyleaf " ye 26th of January 1645. I doo warrant these Parkinsons Herballs perfect & ye best. Richard Marriott St. Dunstans Church yard fleetstraitt". Erased inscription on flyleaf: "Benjamin Burford his Book. 1690".. Binding: Reverse calf, gold tooled spine.
Provenance
Included in the list of Books in Saltram House in 1951 and offered to the Commissioners of Inland Revenue in part paymnt of Death Duty by the executors of Edmund Robert Parker (1877-1951), 4th Earl of Morley.
Makers and roles
John Parkinson (1576-1650)