A Perfite Platforme Of A Hoppe Garden And Necessarie Instructions For The Making And Mayntenaunce

by Reginald Scot Or Scott

$16,500 · Offered by Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller · No longer available

First edition

1576. Numerous woodcut illus. in the text. Largely printed in black letter. 7 p.l. first leaf blank except for signature mark , 63, 1 pp. Small 4to, early 20th cent. polished mottled calf by Riviere, triple gilt fillet round sides, spine richly gilt, red morocco lettering pieces on spine, dentelles gilt, a.e.g. London: H. Denham, 1576. Second edition, “nowe newly corrected and augmented,” of the first English book on hops. The first edition

• Binding: Leather

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