A New Orchard & Garden. Or, The best way for Planting, Grafting, and to make any Ground good for a Rich Orchard. With The Country House-wifes Garden for Herbs of Common use. As also The Husbandry of Bees, with their several Uses and Annoyances. by Lawson, William - 1668

London: John Murray, 1863. First edition. With a folding engraved frontispiece (a little worn and marked, and poorly folded, a little fraying at the margins), eight other plates, 12 illustrations within the text, a folding map at the rear in good condition, octavo, pp xvi, 395, endpapers rarther soiled, title page thumbed and age-toned, contemporaqry half morocco and marbled boards, the paper cover to the boards worn through in places, the leather only a little rubbed. From the library of Compton House, Liverpool, with their stamp on the spine, a label and stamp on the front endpaper, and a few stamps throughout. Unfortunately, a previous owner has started to try and erase the stamps and has got to work on the title page, the next page and the first page of text with the result that there is considerable loss of surface to the page and in one case an actual hole; fortunately common-sense, exhaustion or death interrupted them - it would have been better if they had not started their labours. Despite… Read More

The Red Lion in St Paul's Churchyard, London: R. & J. Bonwicke, 1707. "The Second edition, with the addition of many physical herbs and their vertues". 12mo (measures 165mm x 105mm), pp (6), 349, (29) (though errors in pagination mean that there are actually 411 pages of main text), a little used and marked throughout, the contemporary signature of an early owner on the blank facing the title page (Wm Brecknock - his book - 1714), and his signature again on the preface page, the front endpaper very nearly detached and the hinge at the title page cracked but very sound, lacking the rear endpaper. Contemporary panelled calf, joints rubbed, worn through at the corners, lacking a few small portions around the spine. From the estate of the collector and bibliographer Norman Douglas Simpson with his bookplate and his presentation label on the front endpaper. RARE. [Blanche Henrey 288.]. Second edition. Full-Leather. Good.

The Red Lion in St Paul's Churchyard, London: R. & J. Bonwicke, 1707. "The Second edition, with the addition of many physical herbs and their vertues". 12mo (measures 165mm x 105mm), pp (6), 349, (29) (though errors in pagination mean that there are actually 411 pages of main text), slightly used and marked throughout, contemporary panelled calf, dull and cracke but very sound, early repairs to the corners, fairly recently rebacked with new calf spine, raised bands and title label. RARE. [Blanche Henrey 288.]. Second edition. Full-Leather. Good.

Paris: Lucien Laveur, 1903. Quarto, pp 130, (6), + 60 colour chromolithograph plates on thick stippled paper, the text pages uncut and unopened, the plates with a facing protective page containing the name (these facing page are a bit aged and browned and fraying at the edges,, the plates are still clean, sound and unmarked), all pages are loose as issued in this form, in an original green folder with silver lettering, slightly worn and marked, and lacking the upper ties (of three). A duplicate from the Royal Horticultural lLndley Library, this copy being the Reginald Cory bequest copy, with two labels on the front endpaper, but no other markings. [Cory had a passion for plants and botany and in the early 1930s he undertook a number of plant hunting expeditions, and commissioned others, some of the results of which are exhibited at Dyffryn. He would also share plants with other gardens, including the Cambridge Botanic Garden. Amongst other features, the gardens bear evidence of his trips to Italy.… Read More