THE COUNTRY-MANS RECREATION, or the Art of Planting, Grassing, and Gardening. by MASCALL, Leonard.: - 1640
by MASCALL, Leonard.:
THE COUNTRY-MANS RECREATION, or the Art of Planting, Grassing, and Gardening.
by MASCALL, Leonard.:
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London, printed by B. Allsop and T. Favvcet for Michael Young, and are to be sold at his shop in Bedford-street in Coven-garden neere the New Exchange, 1640.. TITLE CONTINUED: Declaring divers waies of Planting, and Graffing, and the best times of the year, with divers commodities and secrets herein, how to set or Plant with the Root, and without the Root; to sow or set Pepins or Curnels, with the ordering thereof, also to cleanse your Grafts and Cions, to help barren and sick Trees, to kill Worms and Vermin, and to preserve and keep Fruit; how to plant and proyne your Vines, and to gather and presse your Grape; how to cleanse and mosse your Trees, how to make your Cider and Perry, with many other secret Practises which shall appear in the Table following, 1640, first published in1569. FIRST PART ONLY. LACKS THE FOLLOWING 2 BOOKS: THE HOP GARDEN and THE EXPERT GARDENER. Small 4to, approximately 170 x 120 mm, 6½ x 4 ½ inches, 5 text illustrations, pages: [16], 1-88, text padded out with blank paper at rear, rebound in half calf with green gilt lettered label (the title label includes "Expert Gardener", a mistake by the binder), gilt rules and date to spine, marbled boards, new black endpapers. Title page slightly trimmed affecting date at foot, slightly dusty with an ink name and small ink spot, ink name to top of next page, pages 53-54 have amateur repair to margin and to text with loss, the missing text handwritten in ink and pasted in, ink stain to top of page 85 obscuring 5 words, the missing text again pasted in (see images), verso affected but text legible, 1 corner missing and 2 tips of corners missing none affecting text, a few other minor marks, otherwise a good working copy. See: Rachel Hunt, Catalogue of Botanical Books, Volume 1, page 248, No. 233; Blanche Henrey, British Botanical Literature before 1800, Volume 1, page 236, No. 47; H. Frederic Janson, Pomona's Harvest, An Illustrated Chronicle of Antiquarian Fruit Literature, pages 45 and 47: " Mascall, a Renaissance Man, was exuberant in his admiration for nature, exemplified for him in fruit trees, nothing more dear, more requisite, or more greatly in commendation than Planting and Graffing of fruit"; ESTC S108874. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.
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- Place of Publication London, printed by B. Allsop and T. Favvcet for Michael Young, and are to be sold at his shop in Bedford-street in Coven-garden
- Date Published 1640
- Keywords gardening planting grafting trees cider perry vines pepins kernels
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