Search Results: le jardinier solitaire the solitary by gentil francis

Temple-Gate, Fleet Street, London: Benj. Tooke, 1706. [title continues : trees and shrubs, proper to imbellish gardens; with the way of raising all sorts of parterres, greens, knots, porticoes, columns and other ornaments.]. Thick octavo, pp xii, (6), 488, (8), pages rather waved or wrinkled but sound, some staining throughout, mainly light, illustrated with 21 plates, many charming woodcuts within the text, some pages slightly protruding at the fore-edge but no signs of looseness, contemporary panelled calf, neatly restored at the corners, rebacked with a slightly rustic spine, raised bands, new endpapers. RARE. Blanche Henrey 744. [The author was a Carthusian lay-brother, and for over thirty years was gardener to the Charter-house in Paris.]. Full Leather. Good.

London: Printed for Benj. Tooke, 1706. First edition in English. Octavo, original calf with a 20th century rebacking, xii, [6], 488, [8] pages, 20 unnumbered leaves of plates showing garden designs, illustrations of tools and plants. Page 141 is misnumbered 129, and succeeding pages follow the sequence. About Very Good; some shelf wear, page 123 and the following 13 leaves have been wormed alnog the fore-edge margin, not affecting the text.