Flora: seu, De Florum Cultura. Or, a Complete Florilege, Furnished with all Requisites belonging to a Florist. In III Books, 1st edition, London: Nath. Brook, 1665, additional engraved title by D. Loggan entitled 'Flora Ceres & Pomona by John Rea. London printed for Richard Marriott', with 'Mind of the Front' leaf facing, letterpress title printed in black, 16 engraved plans of formal gardens on 8 plates (two plates close-trimmed into image at head), woodcut initials throughout, 3pp. index at rear, front free endpaper with early inscription in a fine caligraphic hand "Thomas Cotton Esquire His Book Being the Gift of the Lady Margert Craven", occasional toning, hinges repaired & cracked, 18th century half calf, rebacked, red morocco title label, board edges worn, folio ESTC R479201; Henry 325 and Wing R421. The nursery gardener John Rea (d.1681) was based at Kinlet in Shropshire, where he was reputed to have the largest collection of tulips in England. His compendious (and only) work on English flora contains descriptions of hundreds of flowering plants. Divided into three sections, Flora tells the reader how to plant fruit and flower gardens; Ceres deals with sowing seeds and seedlings; and Pomona describes garden fruits, vines and berries. Included are sixteen suggested examples of garden maze designs on eight plates. Rea's work was quickly acknowledged to be the most important English treatise on gardening to be published during the second half of the seventeenth century. Provenance: Without being certain it is possible that the endpaper inscription refers to Lady Margaret Craven (1648-1711) who was the wife of Sir William Craven (1638-1695). Margaret was the daughter of Sir Christopher Clapham (1603-1686) and was born in Beamsley, Skipton, Yorkshire; Sir William was the grandson of a cousin of William Craven 1st Earl of Craven (1608-1697). Sir William and Margaret had 14 children, one of which was William Craven 2nd Baron Craven of Hampstead Marshall, Berkshire (1668-1711), born at Benham Park, Speen, Berkshire, who inherited Coombe Abbey, near Coventry in Warwickshire on the death of the 1st Earl Craven in 1697. His son the 3rd Baron Craven rebuilt the old manor house at Hamstead Marshall from the 1660s to the 1680s, probably using William Winde as his architect. Around it he created a grand, formal, compartmented garden (carefully depicted by Knyff and Kip in Britannia Illustrata 1707). The house at Hamstead Marshall burnt down in 1718 and the site was then abandoned. (1)
Flora: seu, De Florum Cultura. Or, a Complete Florilege, Furnished with all Requisites belonging to a Florist. In III Books, 1st edition, London: Nath. Brook, 1665, additional engraved title by D. Loggan entitled 'Flora Ceres & Pomona by John Rea. London printed for Richard Marriott', with 'Mind of the Front' leaf facing, letterpress title printed in black, 16 engraved plans of formal gardens on 8 plates (two plates close-trimmed into image at head), woodcut initials throughout, 3pp. index at rear, front free endpaper with early inscription in a fine caligraphic hand "Thomas Cotton Esquire His Book Being the Gift of the Lady Margert Craven", occasional toning, hinges repaired & cracked, 18th century half calf, rebacked, red morocco title label, board edges worn, folio ESTC R479201; Henry 325 and Wing R421. The nursery gardener John Rea (d.1681) was based at Kinlet in Shropshire, where he was reputed to have the largest collection of tulips in England. His compendious (and only) work on English flora contains descriptions of hundreds of flowering plants. Divided into three sections, Flora tells the reader how to plant fruit and flower gardens; Ceres deals with sowing seeds and seedlings; and Pomona describes garden fruits, vines and berries. Included are sixteen suggested examples of garden maze designs on eight plates. Rea's work was quickly acknowledged to be the most important English treatise on gardening to be published during the second half of the seventeenth century. Provenance: Without being certain it is possible that the endpaper inscription refers to Lady Margaret Craven (1648-1711) who was the wife of Sir William Craven (1638-1695). Margaret was the daughter of Sir Christopher Clapham (1603-1686) and was born in Beamsley, Skipton, Yorkshire; Sir William was the grandson of a cousin of William Craven 1st Earl of Craven (1608-1697). Sir William and Margaret had 14 children, one of which was William Craven 2nd Baron Craven of Hampstead Marshall, Berkshire (1668-1711), born at Benham Park, Speen, Berkshire, who inherited Coombe Abbey, near Coventry in Warwickshire on the death of the 1st Earl Craven in 1697. His son the 3rd Baron Craven rebuilt the old manor house at Hamstead Marshall from the 1660s to the 1680s, probably using William Winde as his architect. Around it he created a grand, formal, compartmented garden (carefully depicted by Knyff and Kip in Britannia Illustrata 1707). The house at Hamstead Marshall burnt down in 1718 and the site was then abandoned. (1)
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