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[Gardening] Meager, Leonard. The English Gardener... First Edition
Estimate: $600-$900
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[Gardening] Meager, Leonard. The English Gardener: Or, a Sure guide to young Planters and Gardeners...



London: Printed for P. Parker, 1670. First edition. Small 4to. (viii), 28, 41-88, 161-252 pp. Illustrated with 24 numbered plates. Full period style brown goatskin, stamped in blind and in gilt; all edges trimmed; light soiling and creasing to title-page; fore-edge A2 repaired; scattered repairs and short tears in fore-edge; light spotting to text. ESTC R14900; Henrey 240; Hunt 316

First edition of Leonard Meager's popular gardening handbook. "Meager's work is written in this same vein of appreciation for the homely type of garden, and is a happy reflection of his satisfaction in having had the privilege of working for thirty years at the gardening tasks he loved so well; his book was popular, and republished a number of times during the 17th century and on into the 18th." (Hunt)

Provenance
ProvenanceFrom the collection of Justin G. Schiller