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Vallet, Pierre (b.l575) "Brodeur ordinaire du Roy.** 
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Le Jardin du roy trSs chrestien Henry IV roy de France 
et de Navare d^did i. la royne. [Paris] 1608. 75 pi. 
F®. (Lib. Cong.; Am. Arb.; Brit. Itus.; Lindley Lib.; 
Radcliffe Lib. Oxford) 
Denise, Bib. Jardin des Plantes (1903), p.20, 
describes this first edition as follows; 
**Le front!spice grav4 servant de titre repre¬ 
sente un grand portique derrlere lequel on voit 
la perspective d*Tan jardin. A droite et a gauche 
les figures de Clusius et de Matthias de Lobel. 
6 f. liminaires avec les portraits librement gra¬ 
ves de Vallet et de Jeen Robin, celui-ci ag6 de 
58 ans. 72 planches de fleurs destinies t servir de 
modules aux broderies alors a la mode.** 
*'Jean Robin a 4crit pour ce recueil, sous le 
titre: Exoticae quaedam plantae a Johanne Robino 
jTuiiore ex Guinea & Hispania delatae, anno 1603, 
les diagnoses et l*histoire de quelques plantes 
a fleurs que ni Ch. de L^cluse, ni Lobel n’avaient 
d^crites, et que Vallet avait gravdes d'apres les 
exemplaires de son jardin.** 
Because of these descriptions by Jean Robin, 
this work is sometimes given under his name, as 
in Seguier, Bib. Bot., p.l68, and Haller, 1:398. 
The number of plates, given as 75 in Brunet, 
4:420; Bouchard-Huzard, p.l045; Bib. Banks, 3:65; 
and Gibault, Jour. Soc.Kat.Eort.France (4) 6:715; 
includes the two portraits of Giuaiua and Lob^, Vall^ 
and 73 plates of plants. The n\3mber 72, given by 
d gbe -an arror, as the plates of the Lib. 
Cong.'copy are numbered 1 to 73. 
This set of plates was renumbered and others 
added in subsequent editions, of which all the 
later ones appear to have 93 plates, while there 
are some issues with varying numbers. Inasmuch 
as no edition save the first, 1608, is definitely 
dated, it is hard to tell how many distinct reis¬ 
sues are in existence. 
