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Brossard, David (cont.)

-----  The countryman's new art of planting and
graffing: directing the best way to make any ground
good for a rich garden: with the manner of how to
plant and graffe all sorts of trees, to set and sow
curnels. As also the remedies and medicines concerning 
the same; with divers other new experiments.
London, 1580. 70 p. (Brit. Mus.?)

Quoted by E. P. Dutton & Co., August 30,
1918, with the statement that it is exceedingly 
rare. No description of the edition
has been found in any bibliography, and no
copy has been located, unless there is one
in the Brit. Mus. Watt, Bib. Brit. 2:562,
notes a 1580 ed. of the "Booke of the arte
and maner how to plant and graffe", but as
Watt does not distinguish titles in any way,
one cannot tell to which group they belong.
There have certainly been several editions
under this title, but the earliest previously 
recorded is that of 1651 or 1652. Nevertheless, 
the 1580 ed. seems to be authentic,
unless Dutton made an error in the date.
(MFW)

-----  London, Printed by J. Bell, 1651. (Fiedler, 
Cat. 28 (1928), no.1517; same, Cat. 38 (1930),
no.1526)

-----  London, Jane Bell, 1652. 70 p. (Brit.
Mus.; Arn. Arb. Cat. 2:xxvii)

-----  London, 1656. (Brit. Mus.)

See also The country-mans recreation, or The art
of planting, graffing, and gardening, in three bookes.
The first declaring divers wayes of planting and graffing. London, 1640; 1654; 1679.

See also Vinet, Élie. La maison champestre et
agriculture. Paris, 1607.
        