Of gardens : Four books first written in Latine verse by Renatus Rapinus, and now made English by J.E
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Type of record: Book
Title: Of gardens : Four books first written in Latine verse by Renatus Rapinus, and now made English by J.E
Other titles: Hortorum libri IV
Classmark: BC Lt/RAP
Creator(s): Rapin, René (1621-1687)
Additional creator(s): Evelyn, John (1655-1699) (Other)
Related people: Evelyn, John
Publisher: printed by T[homas]. R[Ratcliffe]. & N[athaniel]. T[hompson]. for Thomas Collins and John Ford at the Middle-Temple Gate, and Benjamin Tooks at the Ship in St. Pauls Church-yard
Publication city: London
Date(s): 1673
Language: English
Size and medium: [24], 237, [21] p
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/283686
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991001772669705181
Collection group(s): English Literature
Description
A translation of: Hortorum.
Printers' names from Wing CD.
One of three imprint variants of this edition; the other two are dated 1672.
Keynes calls for an errata leaf inserted between Q7-8. The table ([R] according to Keynes, and not seen by him in copies of this variant) is in fact signed. All these leaves are included in pagination above.
Pp.76-77, 78-79, 84, 89, and 92 are wrongly numbered 66-67, 79-78, 48, 68, and 29 respectively.
Includes index.
Indexed in: Wing (CD-Rom, 1996) R269A.
Additional description
Wanting table and index. MS. inscription on p.1 reads The life of a slip or flower is in ye root but ye sweeteness is in ye Flower, wn it opens . The right hand lower corner is torn. MS. inscription on title-page scored out. MS. marginal note on p.181
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