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Boyceau de la Baraudière, Jacques, "Intendant des jardins du Roi".

Traité de la jardinage selon les raisons de la nature
et de l'art, divisé en trois livres; ensemble divers desseins 
de parterres, pelouzes, bosquets et autres omemens
servans à l'embellissement des jardins, par J. Boyceau,
sieur de la Barauderie. Paris, Michel Vanlochom, 1638.
87 p. 63 pl. F°. (Bib. Nat. Paris; Brit. Mus.)

Full title from Cat. Brit. Mus.; imprint and
collation from Cat. Bib. Nat. Bouchard-Huzard
(1870), p.970, gives full description. Quaritch,
Cat. 400, no. 1434, says the book has "62 superb
designs for parterres, etc." Miltitz, Bib. Bot.
col.287, says there are 70 plates, probably an
error, as other authorities mention only 62 or
63. Gibault, Étude (1905), p.720, places a high
estimate on this work.

V. Scholderer of the Brit. Mus. (letter Aug.
23, 1930), says the book was edited by Jacques
de Menours, who refers to Boyceau as his uncle,
who had planned to give this work to the world,
but died before it was completed. Boyceau is
said to have spent the best years of his life
in the service of "King Henry the Great", i.e.
Henri IV. The first edition in folio does not
contain the "Traité des tulipes" that is found
in the 1688 and subsequent editions in 16mo.

Bouchard-Huzard calls attention to the fact
that the author’s name, usually spelled "Baraudière", 
is "Barauderie" in the title of the 1st
ed. (MFW thinks this spelling probably the correct 
one, and the later one an invention of De
Sercy, who printed many of the later editions.)

-----  Paris, A. Courbé, 1640. F°. (Bib. Nat. Paris)

Bouchard-Huzard says this is identical with
the 1st ed., save for a new title-page.

-----  Paris, C. de Sercy, 1688. 87 p. 43 pl. F°.
(Bib. Nat. Paris)

Quaritch, Cat. 400, no.1435, calls this the
2d ed., and describes it as having the portrait
as frontispiece, and 43 designs for parterres,
instead of 62 as in the original ed. Bouchard-
Huzard also says this differs from the 1st ed.
only in the illustrations.
        