HIBLIOGRAI'UV. 329 



1594 Sir Hugh Platt. The Jewell House of Art and Nature. 

 Conteining diuers rare and profitable Inuentions, 

 together witli sundry new experiments in the Art of 

 Husbandry, Distillation, and Moulding . . London, 

 Peter Short, 1594. 4to. 



■ Floraes Paradise, beautified and adorned with sundry 



sorts of delicate fruites and fiowers, by the industrious 

 labour of H. P. knight . . London, H. L. for William 

 Leake . . 1608. Small 8vo. 



the same work, reprinted under the title of The Garden 



of Eden. 1653. Small 4to. 



This edition was brought out, after the author's death, by his 

 kinsman Charles Bellingham, who signs the dedication. 



1596 John Gerard or Gerarde. Catalogus Arborum, fruticum 

 ac plantarum tam indigenarum quam exoticarum in 

 horto Gerardi nascentium. Londini, ex off. Roberti 

 Robinson, 1596. Small 8vo. 



The copy in the British Museum is probably unique. 



■ reprinted in 1876 under the title of "A Catalogue of 



Plants "... with notes. B. D. Jackson . . 



■ The Herball, or Generall Historie of Plantes. 



London, J. Norton, 1597. Folio 

 reprinted with considerable augmentation and im- 

 provement by Thomas Johnson in 1633 

 This immense work of standard character contains ig preliminary 

 leaves (including the engraved title), 163 1 pp. of text, and 46 pp. 

 of tables, etc. It has several hundreds of woodcut illustrations. 

 Most of them appeared in the original edition of 1597, but a large 

 number was added by Johnson in 1633. 



1599 DuBRAVius — . . A New Booke of good Husbandry . . Written 

 in Latin by Janus Dubravius and translated into 

 English at the speciall request of George Churchey . . 

 London, William White, 1599. Small 4to. 



The translator's name is not known. 



Gardner's Kitchen Garden. Profitable Instructions for the 



Manuring, Sowing, and Planting of Kitchen Gardens 



. . Edw. Allde for Edward White, 1599. Small 4to. * 



This first edition is so described by Lowndes, and is mentioned 



in Piatt's Garden of Eden ; but no copy has been traced. 



