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
Gunby Hall Estate, Lincolnshire
NT 3242625
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. Purchased 2022. Pastedown numbered in pencil: 74. Provenance: booklabel: Henry Massingberd, Gunby. 1781. No.91. [i.e. Henry Massingberd (d.1784)]. Binding: seventeenth-century mottled calf, rebacked preserving old spine label
Makers and roles
Jean-Baptiste de La Quintinie (1626-1688) William Elder (fl.1680-1700) John Evelyn (1620-1706)