A Booke Of The Arte And Maner How To Plant And Graffe All Sorts Of Trees How To Set Stones Sow Pepins To

by Leonard Mascall

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First edition

Woodcut vignette on title, one full-page woodcut, & several smaller woodcuts in the text. Black letter. 11 p.l., 88, 10 pp. Small 4to, late 18th cent. calf upper joint cracked but strong, small paper flaw on blank outer margin of title, fore-edges faintly dampstained , spine lettered in gilt. London: J. Wight, 1575. The third edition of the first English gardening manual; the first edition appeared in 1569 and all 16th-century printings are rather

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