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MASCALL, Leonard (d. 1589). A booke of the arte and manner how to plant and graffe all sorts of trees, how to sette stones and sow pepins, to make wild trees to graffe on, as also remedies & medicines. With diuers other new practises, by one of the abbey of St. Vincent in Fraunce, practised with his owne hands: deuided into vij. chapters, as hereafter more plainly shall appeare, with an addition in the ende of this booke, of certaine Dutch practices. London: T. East for Thomas Wight, 1592.
First published in English in 1569, most of the text is from David Brossard's L'art et manière de semer et de faire Pépinières de sauvageaux (Paris, 1552). Three copies in Britain, four in the U.S., according to ESTC.
4to (191 x 141 mm). Woodcut vignette of a tree grafting on title, repeated on L1v, full-page woodcut of various grafting tools, six small vignettes in text, one repeated. (Lacks final blank.) Polished calf, covers gilt-ruled and centering the crest of Christie Miller, spine gilt, all edges gilt, by C. Lewis. Provenance: William Bolland (pencil note by:) William Henry Miller, Britwell Court Library (binding), by descent to; Samuel Christie Miller, to; Wakefield Christie Miller; to S. R. Christie Miller.
First published in English in 1569, most of the text is from David Brossard's L'art et manière de semer et de faire Pépinières de sauvageaux (Paris, 1552). Three copies in Britain, four in the U.S., according to ESTC.
4to (191 x 141 mm). Woodcut vignette of a tree grafting on title, repeated on L1v, full-page woodcut of various grafting tools, six small vignettes in text, one repeated. (Lacks final blank.) Polished calf, covers gilt-ruled and centering the crest of Christie Miller, spine gilt, all edges gilt, by C. Lewis. Provenance: William Bolland (pencil note by:) William Henry Miller, Britwell Court Library (binding), by descent to; Samuel Christie Miller, to; Wakefield Christie Miller; to S. R. Christie Miller.