The gardeners labyrinth : containing a discourse of the gardeners life, in the yearly trauels to be bestovved on his plot of earth, for the vse of a garden: with instructions for the choise of seedes, apte tunes for sowing, setting, planting, & watering, and the vessels and instruments seruing to that vse and purpose: wherein are set forth diuers herbers, knottes and mazes, cunningly handled for the beautifying of gardens. Also the physike benefit of eche herbe, plant, and floure, with the vertues of the distilled waters of euery of them, as by the sequele may further appeare. Gathered out of the best approued writers of gardening, husbandrie, and physicke: by Dydymus Mountaine.
- Hill, Thomas, approximately 1528-
- Date:
- Anno. 1578
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About this work
Also known as
Second part of the gardeners labyrinth.
Publication/Creation
Printed at London : By Henry Bynneman, Anno. 1578.
Physical description
8 unnumbered pages, 80, 180 pages, 20 unnumbered pages : illustrations
References note
STC (2nd ed.) 13486.
Notes
Dydymus Mountaine = Thomas Hill.
Editor's dedication signed: Henry Dethicke.
The second part has separate divisional title page and pagination; register is continuous.
Includes index.
At the end of the first part is an unsigned quire, printed on one forme only, with cuts of knots and mazes--STC.
An imprint variant of the 1577 edition.
Reproduction of the original in the Bodleian Library.
Reproduction note
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1999- (Early English books online) Digital version of: (Early English books, 1475-1640 ; 466:03) s1999 miun s