Paradisi in Sole Paradisus Terrestis; or, A Garden of All Sorts of Pleasant Flowers…
- London:: Humfrey Lownes and Robert Young,, 1629.
Folio page (12" x 8"), hand colored illustration, text on reverse side of page, archivally matted with print attached at the top with archival tape. Usual offset from the text side, paper a little browned and aged, slight creasing at the bottom of the plate, edges a little rough, perhaps a litttle triming on one side; otherwise very good. John Parkinson (1567-1650) was an apothecary and herbalist, and was so well respected in his field that he was consulted on the first Pharmacopoeia Londinensis by the College of Physicians. He had a keen interest in gardening, which led to the publication of his first work, Paradisi in Sole Paradisus Terrestris; or. A Garden of All Sorts of Pleasant Flowers, in 1629. This plate (page 41), which features illustrations of several flowers, is from that work. ODB.