Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
Folger Shakespeare Library Digital Image Collection
Source Creator:
Hill, Thomas, b. ca. 1528.
Source Title:
The gardeners labyrinth: containing a discourse of the gardeners life, in the yearly trauels to be bestovved on his plot of earth, for the vse of a garden...
Source Created or Published:
1577
Physical Description:
page 25
Source Call Number:
STC 13485
Digital Image File Name:
15527
Digital Image Type:
FSL collection
Hamnet Bib ID:
167720
Hamnet Holdings ID:
162460
HAMNET CATALOG RECORD:
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Creator (Hamnet):
Hill, Thomas, b. ca. 1528.
Title (Hamnet):
Second part of the gardeners labyrinth
Title (Hamnet):
The gardeners labyrinth: containing a discourse of the gardeners life, in the yearly trauels to be bestovved on his plot of earth, for the vse of a garden: with instructions for the choise of seedes, apte times for sowing, setting, planting, [and] watering, and the vessels and instruments seruing to that vse and purpose: wherein are set forth diuers herbers, knottes and mazes, cunningly handled for the beautifying of gardens. Also the physike benefit of eche herbe, plant, and floure, with the vertues of the distilled waters of euery of them, as by the sequele may further appeare. Gathered out of the best approued writers of gardening, husbandrie, and physicke: by Dydymus Mountaine.
Place of Creation or Publ. (Hamnet):
Printed at London :
Creator or Publisher (Hamnet):
By Henry Bynneman,
Date of Creation or Publ. (Hamnet):
Anno. 1577.
Physical Description (Hamnet):
[8], 80, [8], 180, [12] p. : ill. ; 4⁰.
Folger Holdings Notes (Hamnet):
ac5229. A few MS. notes; those in margins cropped. Gatherings at front and back mended; copy stained and wormed. Provenance: inscription on front paste-down: 'Godfrey Bird Illington Rectory 1884'; bought by Folger in 1936 from Last Catalogue 218:198
Notes (Hamnet):
At the end of the first part is an unsigned quire, printed on one forme only, with cuts of knots and mazes--STC.
Notes (Hamnet):
Dydymus Mountaine = Thomas Hill.
Notes (Hamnet):
Editor's dedication signed: Henry Dethicke.
Notes (Hamnet):
Includes index.
Notes (Hamnet):
Signatures: a⁴ A-K⁴ chi⁴ L-2L⁴.
Notes (Hamnet):
Stationer's Register: Entered 3 September 1576.
Notes (Hamnet):
The second part has separate divisional title page and pagination; register is continuous.
Citations (Hamnet):
ESTC (RLIN) S118782
Citations (Hamnet):
STC (2nd ed.), 13485
Subject (Hamnet):
Annotations (Provenance) rbprov DFo
Subject (Hamnet):
Gardening -- Early works to 1800.
Subject (Hamnet):
Herbs -- Therapeutic use -- Early works to 1800.
Associated Name (Hamnet):
Dethick, Henry, 1545 or 6-1613.
Call Number (Hamnet):
STC 13485

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