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REA, JOHN. Flora; seu, De florum cultura. Or, A Complete Florilege, Furnished With all Requisites Belonging to a Florist. 8 engraved plates showing 16 garden plans. [26], 174, [2], 175-239, [5] pages, including engraved additional title by David Loggan with Richard Marriott imprint and preceding leaf of explanatory text. Folio, 300x185 mm, 18th-century 1/2 sheep, rebacked, cover edges and corners worn, hinges reinforced; occasional marginal soiling, light stains on H1.4, faint marginal dampstaining on index leaves. Contemporary owner's large calligraphic ownership inscription on front free endpaper ("Thomas Cotton Esquire His Book Being the Gift of the Lady Margert [sic] Craven"). London: Nath. Brook, 1665
first edition; issue with Brook imprint on letterpress title. ESTC R479201; Henrey I, 195 ("the most important English treatise on gardening to be published during the second half of the seventeenth century").
