Product details

Art.No:

68053

Author / Artist:

Evelyn, Charles

Title:

Subtitles / Reproduction:

Keyword:

Alte Drucke - nach 1550

Binding / Picture Size:

Kart. d Zeit m. handschriftl. Rückentitel

Publisher:

Christ. Gottlob Hilscher

Place of publishing:

Leipzig

Year of publication:

1773

Book Details / Size:

kl.8°, Fronti, 10 Bl., 170 S.

Condition:

Ex Libris a. Vors., berieben , etwas fingerfleckig

Description:

Neue Auflage (Zweite Auflage des 1756 erstmals von Th. Arnold übersetzten Textes: «The Lady's Recreation: or, the Third and Last Part of the Art of Gardening» (London, 1717).- "We know nothing of Charles Evelyn (1620-1706), whose ,The Lady's Recreation' appears as the third of four sections in the 1717 edition of a larger volume, 'Gardening Improv'd, by John Laurence (1668-1732), a clergyman who took his BA and MA from Clare College, Cambridge and who went on to become an authority on gardening, writing several books on the topic " (Travitsky/Prescott, Making Gardens of Their Own: Advice for Women 1500-1750 (2007), S. XXI).Bibliographie: VD 18 (Online Kat. 116 96 834-003); Dochnahl, Bibliotheca Hortensis, S. 45; vgl. Blanche Henrey, A History and Bibliography of British Botanical and Horticultural Books up to 1800, Nr. 699 (für die englische Originalausgabe von 1717).