Rea, John
Flora: seu de Florum Cultura or a Complete Florilege furnished with all Requisites belonging to a Florist
London, George Marriott, 1676. 2nd Edition, Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Hardcover. 2nd corrected impression in 3 books (Flora, Ceres, Pomona - all bound together). London 1676. Folio. 231 pages with 8 engraved plates. Small wormholes in margins. Damp-staining to lower edges. Rebacked with original spine laid on. Wilfrid Blunt's copy ("Wilfrid Blunt, May 1948 Eton"), later (in 1985) given to Ray Desmond with best wishes by Blunt. ' The most important English treatise on gardening to be published during the second half of the seventeenth century'-Henrey, page 195. Hundreds of flowering plants and fruit trees are described, with instructions on how to construct a garden. Very Good.
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