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LA QUINTINIE, JEAN DE (1626-1688) (513 pages )

THE COMPLEAT GARD'NER; OR, DIRECTIONS FOR CULTIVATING AND RIGHT ORDERING OF FRUIT-GARDENS AND KITCHEN-GARDENS; WITH DIVERS REFLECTIONS ON SEVERAL PARTS OF HUSBANDRY. IN SIX BOOKS. BY THE FAMOUS MONSR. DE LA QUINTINYE, CHIEF DIRECTOR OF ALL THE GARDENS OF THE FRENCH-KING. TO WHICH IS ADDED HIS TREATISE OF ORANGE-TREES, WITH THE RAISING OF MELONS, OMITTED IN THE FRENCH EDITIONS. MADE ENGLISH BY JOHN EVELYN ESQUIRE, ILLUSTRATED WITH COPPER PLATES.

London, Printed for Matthew Gillyflower, at the Spread Eagle in Westminster-Hall, and James Partridge, at the Post-house at Charing-Cross, 1693.

Two folio volumes in one. Engraved frontispiece portrait of La Quintinie; etched double-page plan, "The Kings Kitchen Garden at Versailles"; eight engraved and etched vignettes at the beginning of each part; four woodcut text illustrations and three are engraved or etched; nine full page engraved and etched plates plus one double-page. Title-page printed in red and black. Contemporary Cambridge calf with blind stamped panels on covers; spine re-backed with original gilt leather; all edges speckled red. Spine height: 12 ¾ inches. Bookplates: Charles Milsom and Laurance Williams.