Flora: seu, De florum cultura. . Or, a complete florilege, furnished with all requisites belonging to a florist.
John Rea (d.1681)
Category
Books
Date
1676
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Tyntesfield, North Somerset
NT 3049409
Summary
Bibliographic description
[26],231,[9]p., [9] plates . ill.. . fol... Provenance: Crest bookplate: "William Gibbs.", with motto "En Dios Mi Amparo y Esperanza." [i.e. William Gibbs (1790-1875)]. - Ms on flyleaf: "Catherina Boevey her book: 1696" and several more repetitions of her name. - Armorial bookplate: "Esse Quam Videri" [i.e. Crawley Boevey family motto] on flyleaf. - Ms on flyleaf under bookplate: "Sr. Thos. Crawley Boevey Flaxley Abbey". - Ms at foot of engraved title page: "Catharina Boevey".. Binding: Seventeenth-century sprinkled sheep; spine with five raised bands and one green label outlayed; gold-tooled spine label and board edges; blind-tooled borders; red sprinkled edges.
Makers and roles
John Rea (d.1681)