Accession number
PML 125306.3
Creator
Estienne, Charles, 1504-approximately 1564.
Published
Parisiis : Apud Franciscum Stephanum, M. D. XXXVIII [1538]
Credit line
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 1988-9.
Notes
Signatures: A-B⁸, C⁴.
Includes index.
Printer's device on the title page; Marque au cep.
Manual of shrubs, water-plants, and thorn-hedges, designed for amateur gardener and landscapist. Schreiber #119.
Probably printed by Simon de Colin.
Includes index.
Printer's device on the title page; Marque au cep.
Manual of shrubs, water-plants, and thorn-hedges, designed for amateur gardener and landscapist. Schreiber #119.
Probably printed by Simon de Colin.
Description
37, [3] p. ; 18 cm (8vo)
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscriptions on front flyleaf in later hand: "ne simus adulteri raptores fu[?]i fornicadoris ne faeramus eus quum injuriam" ; "ego sum pastor Conus cognos eo eius meas et cognoscunt me [?]" ; "nos a[?] ut justi fiam[?] erudite in chr[is]t[um] Jesum." Pen trials inside lower cover.
Provenance
"Joannis [?]ronson" inscription on front flyleaf. Other inscriptions unidentified. From the library of the Ramey family (16th-cent. France).
Binding
Contemporary blind-tooled leather (sheep or goat) over paperboards; manuscript waste; sewing structure visible.
Classification
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Department