The compleat gard'ner: . or, directions for cultivating and right ordering of fruit-gardens and kitchen-gardens; By Monsieur de la Quintinye. Now compendiously abridg'd, and made of more use, with very considerable improvements. By George London, and Henry Wise.
Jean-Baptiste de La Quintinie (1626-1688)
Category
Books
Date
1710
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Kedleston Hall, Derbyshire
NT 3141944
Summary
Bibliographic description
[2],xxxvi,325,[7]p., plates . ill.. . 8vo.. Provenance: Eighteenth-century armorial bookplate, Curzon impaling Colyear, signed 'P. Mazell': 'Recte et Suaviter' (Franks 7705 2nd state- fine text) [Sir Nathaniel Curzon, 1st Baron Scarsdale (1726-1804) m. 1750 Lady Caroline Colyear]. Binding: Eighteenth-century full sprinkled leather binding; blind fillet border and double panel; five raised bands; spine label gilt lettered: "Quintiny's Compleat gardener".
Makers and roles
Jean-Baptiste de La Quintinie (1626-1688) John Evelyn (1620-1706) George London (d.1714) Henry Wise (1653 - 1738)