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Also contains The Compleat Florist, or, The Universal Culture of Flowers, Trees and Shrubs by the Sieur Louis Liger d'Auxerre. Newly done into English. London: Printed for Benjamin Took, 1706. The second work is a translation of le Jardinier Fleuriste. Spine label: The Carthusian Gardener. "This is the first edition of a different English translation from that overseen by London and Wise."--Cf. Johnston, S. H. Cleveland coll. 321. Le Jardinier Solitaire translated from the second, 1706, edition. Printer's pagination imperfect: p. [141] misnumbered 129, succeeding pages also misnumbered. However, Table of Contents reflects the "misnumbering." References: Johnston, S. H. Cleveland coll. 321. Includes index.
Two popular French garden books translated into English by a rival English publisher.
Subjects: Gardening.
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