Two manuals of gardening from English manuscript notebooks of the seventeenth century in the library of Rachel McMasters Miller Hunt.
Taylor, George,1904-1993,former owner.StEdNL
Stanley Smith Horticultural Trust,former owner.StEdNL
Hunt Botanical Library.
Limited edition of 310 copies; as issued in wrappers, in case; partly unopened.
Transcriptions by Emily Driscoll and Henrietta Hannah.
" ... printed by Carl Purington Rollins at the printing-office of the Yale University Press ..."--Colophon.
v. 1 Husbandry.--v. 2 Soyle for an orchard.
Accompanied by a compliments card from the Hunt Botanical Library, inscribed "To Sir George Taylor" and signed "George Lawrence"; bookplate reading "Sir George Taylor ex libris ad Stanley Smith Horticultural Trust" attached to inside front covers.
Fruit-culture
Gardening