Paradisi in sole, paradisus terrestris : or, a choice garden of all sorts of rarest flowers
Subtitle: with their nature, place of birth, time of flowering, names, and vertues to each plant, useful in physick, or admired for beauty. To which is annext a kitchen-garden furnished with all manner of herbs, roots, and fruits, for meat or sawce used with us. With the art of planting an orchard of all sorts of fruit-bearing trees and shrubs, shewing the nature of grafting, inoculating and pruning of them. Together with the right ordering, planting and preserving of them, with their select vertues: All unmentioned in former Herbals
By: collected by John Parkinson, apothecary of London, and the Kings Herbarist
Contributors: Thrale, Richard, active 1650-1667, bookseller
Edition: The second impression much corrected and enlarged.
Publisher: Printed by R.N. and are to be sold by Richard Thrale at his shop at the signe of the Cross-Keys at S. Pauls-gate, going into Cheap-side
Published: 1656
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 612
Subjects: Plants; Botany; Gardening; Pre-Linnean works; Herbs; Early works to 1800; Vegetable Materia medica; Illustrations; Flowers; Materia medica
Other titles: Choice garden of all sorts of rarest flowers; Garden of all sorts of pleasant flowers; Parkinson's Paradisi
Notes: Main title page in double-lined border.

Printer's device on main title page.

Alternative title page, showing woodcut of Garden of Eden with Adam and Eve. Title in cartouche, with different version of alternative title: "A garden of all sorts of pleasant flowers ..."

Decorative headpieces and initial letters.

Advertisements on final leaf.

Alternative title: "A choice garden of all sorts of rarest flowers ..."

Spine title: "Parkinson's paradisi."

"Nearly a thousand plants are described under the three heads enumerated in the title, and of these 780 are figured on 109 plates, the wood-blocks for which, many of them copied from Clusius and Lobel, were specially cut in England". 'Dictionary of National Biography', XLIII, p. 315.

Includes index.

First published in 1629. Second edition was re-printed almost verbatim.

Wing P495

ESTC R2925

Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy: lacking title page.