Rapin of gardens : a Latin poem in four books : English'd by Mr. Gardiner
Details
Type of record: Book
Title: Rapin of gardens : a Latin poem in four books : English'd by Mr. Gardiner
Other titles: Hortorum libri IV; Of gardens
Classmark: Bedford Collection B299
Creator(s): Rapin, René (1621-1687)
Additional creator(s): Gardiner, James (1732) (Other); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019) (Former owner); Barker, HF (Former owner)
Publisher: Printed for Bernard Lintot, at the Cross Keys between the Temple gates, Fleetstreet
Publication city: London
Date(s): 1728
Language: English
Size and medium: liii, 200 pages, 8 unnumbered pages
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/729674
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991001772799705181
Description
Plates by L Cheron and E Kirkall.
Contents: Book I. Of flowers -- Book II. Of trees -- Book III. Of water -- Book IV. The orchard.
Features
Bindings
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection B299: modern [19th century?] half calf, marbled paper over boards [possibly re-backed], decorated fore-edges.
Provenance
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection B299: From the John Evan Bedford Library, gifted in 2019. Twenty-first-century pictorial bookplate on front pastedown: John Evan Bedford. Former reference: GH/1. Nineteenth-century MS. inscription on title page: H F Barker.
Access and usage
Access
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